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Re: Spitballing IoT Security
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 01:59:05 -0400
Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg () tristatelogic com>:
In message <20161030044342.GA18488 () thyrsus com>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus com> wrote:Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg () tristatelogic com>:Two kids with a modest amount of knowledge and a lot of time on their hands can do it from their mom's basement.I in turn have to call BS on this. If it were really that easy, we'd be inundated by Mirais -- we'd have several attacks a *day*.You need to get out more. http://www.nab.org/cybersecurity/Verisign-report-ddos-trends-Q22016.pdf It *is* happening every day. You just don't hear about it on CNN because a "little" 80Mbps DDoS isn't even worthy of a headline anymore, even though such an attack could CRUSH a local bank, and even many regional banks into utter oblivion. Now, where did I put those bitcoins... It's ransom time!
Don't change the subject. An effective DDoS against any single site is, though concerning, not a Mirai-class event. The difference matters, and you shouldn't be pretending it does to score rhetorical points. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
Current thread:
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security, (continued)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Stephen Satchell (Oct 28)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security bzs (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Eric S. Raymond (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security bzs (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Tom Beecher (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security bzs (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Eric S. Raymond (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Eric S. Raymond (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security bzs (Oct 30)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security John Weekes (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Pierre Lamy (Oct 31)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Doug Barton (Oct 30)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Rich Kulawiec (Oct 30)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jim Hickstein (Oct 30)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Eliot Lear (Oct 27)
- RE: Spitballing IoT Security Keith Medcalf (Oct 28)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Alan Buxey (Oct 29)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Chris Boyd (Oct 25)