I think that would be one way to alleviate the concerns, yes. Also note that we are talking about special category of users who have somewhat more control over their network - not a typical BB user sitting behind a NAT. Another important question IMO is how these data is going to be used. Several people I talked to were supporting of the idea of instigating an "anti-spoofing" movement among the ISPs, where in order to get (and stay) on a public list of networks who care one needs to pass anti-spoofing tests. Atlas and Spoofer would be instrumental in this effort. Andrei Warren Kumari wrote on 9/7/13 7:24 PM:
Apologies if this has already been discussed enlist -- I took a quick look though the archives and didn't see it.
I believe that the reason for not allowing things like tests that send spoofed packets is that it might violate the AUP that participants have with their ISPs / be viewed by participants ISPs as an attack.
So, what about having a checkbox in the Probe Settings that says something like: "I have no AUP with my ISP or I'm fine to violate my AUP. Run intrusive or dangerous tests on this probe" ? This would create a subset of probes that could be used for more interesting tests, an d would allow for greater visibility into things.
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