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

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0600, Jerry Pasker wrote:
> 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.

I have no idea whether they're mature enough.  They're most certainly
not knowledgeable enough, as they appear to have failed to account for:

        - zombie'd end-user systems (some of which will no doubt
          download this DoS tool)
        - web sites hosted on zombies (and serving requests sent
          to them either by rapidly-updating DNS or redirectors)
        - throwaway domains
        - hijacked ASNs

among other standard spammer tricks, all of which can be used to
deflect the attack or redirect it against third parties.

But beyond that: this is a silly tactic.  Spammers have as much
[free, to them] bandwidth as they want.  They're trying to drown
people who "own" the ocean.

---Rsk