holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on a University of Washington project aiming to marshal swarms of "good" computers to take on botnets. Their approach — called Phalanx — uses its distributed network to shield a server from DDoS attacks. Instead of that server being accessed directly, all information must pass through the swarm of "mailbox" computers, which are swapped around randomly and only pass on information to the shielded server when it requests it."
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