Re: Mastercard problems

[Philip Dorr <tagno25 () gmail com>]

The problem is that they were also slashdotted.  The logs would also have a
large number of unrelated.
On Dec 8, 2010 12:49 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:
> > On 12/8/2010 11:28 AM, William McCall wrote:
> >
> > > Are you prepared for "informaton terrorism" laws?
> >
> >
> > DOS attacks are already illegal. I question the ability to track
responsible
> > parties down and have appropriate proof to actually prosecute.
> >
> > Let's be honest. Even in the 20th century, more people had been caught by
> > bragging in public than by backtracking.
>
> so... the loic tool uses the host's local address, the attacks are all
> HTTP based, or tcp/80 with malformed HTTP... someone with server logs
> could certainly get a list of the ips involved and hand that over to
> the FBI for proper action.
>
> I know that the folks involved on the MC side already have this data,
> and that the fbi is interested in it.
>
> -chris