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RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:56:29 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw () deneb enyo de] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:01 PM To: Brett Cc: Hannigan, Martin; nanog list Subject: Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?I think Lycos did not think this through enough. Their response is HUGE. They've essentially launched a Denial of Service onthemselves. The site that is being blackholed isn't on their network, AFAICS. Actually, I think this is an ingenious PR campaign, but it probably doesn't work the way it was conceived, though I blieve that the net outcome for Lycos will be utterly positive.
Possibly. What will happen if the Lycos botnet gets hijacked? The conversations between the clients and the servers don't appear to be keyed. If a million clients got owned, it would be the equivalent of an electronic Bubonic Plague with no antidote. -M<
Current thread:
- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Hannigan, Martin (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Brett (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 03)
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- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Hannigan, Martin (Dec 02)
- RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Jim Segrave (Dec 03)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Jim Segrave (Dec 03)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Brett (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)
- Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site? Steven Champeon (Dec 02)