Distributed Denial of Service attacks have become a serious problem since the second half of 1999. They are a manifestation of what economists call the `tragedy of the commons': while everyone may have an interest in protecting a shared resource (Internet security), individuals have a stronger motive to cheat (connecting insecure computers). So we doubt that some of the proposed technical countermeasures will work, as they take insufficient account of economic forces. In this talk, we discuss the XenoService, a possible remedy.