Re: Intrusion Detection Evaluation Datasets

Stefano Zanero <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:29:29 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.ids
Organization	Secure Network S.r.l.
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Damiano Bolzoni wrote:

> If I were a bank, I would be pretty much unhappy to have 10 bogus
> requests per second that consume the bandwidth, 

I can't see why they should be "long sequences of the same characters",
which is (evidently) a way to stress the limitations of regular expressions.

Unless there's a clear case for such expressivity being useful IRL, I
don't see why we should worry about it.

SZ