RE: "Make love, not spam"....

[chuck goolsbee <chucklist () forest net>]

> > It's a DDOS. The risk of collateral damage is  high.
> <snip>
>
> From what limited information is available in the articles, it 
> doesn't sound that way.  It's not really a DDoS attack, but more of 
> a "distributed web surfing bot."  
> <snip>
>
> I understand this as more of a Distributed Consumption of Service 
> attack.  (Is the acronym DCoS used yet?)  Real requests, downloading 
> real data, to real computers.  A lot of them.  T
> <snip>
>
> The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script kiddie with 
> zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint and not 
> knock down websites with brute force.  They're attempting to use the 
> politically correct "grown up" way to attack someone:  economics.
>
> How is giving the spammers what they want (real web site traffic) an 
> attack?  That doesn't even qualify!

How many bogus URLs are embedded into spam content? A: Lots.
They are used to obscure words to get past filters, or as red herring 
targets or joe-jobs.  A DDoS is a DDoS, no matter how "benign" one 
might think it is, or how "evil/deserving" the target is perceived to 
be.


The risk of collateral damage is way too high.
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Chuck Goolsbee                          V.P. Technical Operations
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