The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault,

That's not was DDOS means: Distributed Denial of Service

...meaning it comes from so many different sources its very hard to block.

People are getting dumber about computers, not smarter. You heard it here first.

I agree about people getting dumber about computers, but sadly you're not the first to say it.

I see it in my IT work everyday. It makes for some good job security, but I wonder what happens when the last of us that know how to work the dark magics shuffle off our mortal coil.

In an ideal world, as they see your knowledge is harder and harder to replace, they'll start paying more for it, and that will hopefully be encouraging enough to the current workforce to learn the skills.

In an ideal world, as they see your knowledge is harder and harder to replace, they’ll start paying more for it

This is true and happens to me.

, and that will hopefully be encouraging enough to the current workforce to learn the skills.

Here's the challenge. Someone new that doesn't have the skills that is enticed by the money has to make two evaluations:

• How hard is it to learn the skill?
• How long with the skill be marketable?

For me to learn the skill wasn't difficult because is it was modern and contemporary technology at the time. Training and support resources existed, and I was able to incrementally learn how those older technologies continued to evolve or be accommodated as new technologies arrived to replace them, but then didn't. That won't be the case for someone new. They can't even use the old training material I used (assuming it was even still around) because that was written assuming the technology pervasive and well supported while the opposite is true today.

As for marketability, this is an even larger gamble. Many of these technologies should have been retired decades ago, but weren't for a variety of niche reasons. No organizations are putting out new deployments of these old technologies. The customer base/employers wanting these skills decrease every year as old legacy systems are finally retired leaving even fewer opportunities for a new person to exercise these newly acquired old skills. Its a fact that someday there will be no users of them, but when will that be? It should have happened already so what new worker would want to try and gamble on going into extensive learning on technologies that should be dead by the time they master them?

The article literakky says "a huge number of IPs". Do you have more information?

I gave the proper definition of the acronym where the article did not. I'm not making commentary on the article topic.

Sorry I misread your comment.

You are right, this definition is wrong.

No worries!