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Long-form thinking on cyber defence, detection, and resilience — from Slackware-era honeypots through to AI-driven SOC analytics.

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Building defences against floods, when you cannot defend

16 August 1999

I cannot stop a distributed flood at my edge. What I can do — and have done over the past fortnight — is reduce the cost of being targeted, and make sure my hosts are not part of the problem. A walk through the small-scale interventions.

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