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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:38:03 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Other than trying to hide your real address, what can be done to prevent DDOS in the first place.Don't piss people off on IRC? :)
After I laughed for a minute or two, you're exactly right -- although the social & political issues involved go far beyond IRC. Witness the back-and-forth DoS attacks involving Wikileaks and Anti-Wikileaks proponents going on right now. But this is not a new phenomenon -- every time there is a perceived insult or slight against Chinese pride/culture, it always spurs some sort of DoS attack scenario with grassroots support. These sorts of attacks have been going on for years, and will escalate far into the future, methinks. $.02, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFM/wulq1pz9mNUZTMRAmITAJ4jZwSSA6dlSN0biMOcSu2FpMPKfwCgp8Qd FQ9mWdVujVK99fxiXdyYWO4= =Mo1H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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- Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Sean Donelan (Dec 05)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Blake Dunlap (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? David Ulevitch (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Sean Donelan (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Paul Ferguson (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Dobbins, Roland (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Adrian Chadd (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Dobbins, Roland (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Adrian Chadd (Dec 07)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Dec 06)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? bmanning (Dec 08)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Dobbins, Roland (Dec 08)
- Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? Thomas Mangin (Dec 08)
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