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rendition switcher   Jonathan Zittrain: Governments can protect
themselves just fine, as can big corporations. You can bunker-
ize your operations to an arbitrary degree, so that you're using
best practices. If there's a denial of service attack against
you, you can deploy the resources to absorb it or to deflect it.
If you think about it, Google suffers continuous distributed
denial of service attacks, because they're so damned popular.
How many Google searches are happening this second? I don’t care
how many zombies you're going to send to attack Google. It's
like, there's so many people already zombified, going to Google,
because they're desperate for a search, that it's just a drop in
the ocean. The real problem is if smaller to medium sized
businesses find themselves clogged, or personal connections are
clogged, and the