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KISA Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Sep 22 10:22:44 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:49:16 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 05:25:40 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: KISA Attack
Sender: owner-cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
For the past two days jya.com has been under attack
by the Korea Information Security Agency
http://www.kisa.or.kr
which has set up (or allowed) a couple of robots to issue a
sustained flood of requests for the same three files, one per
second, which has nearly stopped access by others.
We've written the <webmaster@kisa.or.kr> to no effect.
The phone listed at the KISA web site does not answer.
A robot exclusion file has not worked.
Any suggestions for ways to ebola the invaders? We filed
criminal charges with the international cybercrimes tribunal
but do not expect rapid deployment of their cooping cops --
spooned with KISA's.
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
