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Could they effectively DoS the IPs on the blacklist[1] and still play good defense?

1. http://www.norse-corp.com/darklist.html



Not without causing some significant disruptions. A lot of these are going to be compromised machines in someone's house. If you start launching attacks at a residential connection, you can start to interfere with other users that are near that person. (Since most residential connections are shared, at one point or another)




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