[nitrogen]

How do your last two paragraphs follow from the first three? How does having large companies share threat data help your small startup mitigate a DDoS?

There is an actual problem with online security attacks right now, and hysteria over any USG intervention with the Internet at all is helping perpetuate it.

This sounds an awful lot like, "We must do something. This is something, therefore we must do this."

[tptacek]

ISPs propagate flow-based snapshots of attacks to populate filters and redirect traffic to scrubbing centers, but they do so discreetly in part because of concerns about how well their data --- which is used exclusively to generate filters --- has been anonymized.