[123780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Mon Mar 15 21:47:49 2010
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:47:26 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine@live.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Guillaume FORTAINE <gfortaine@live.com> wrote:
> Dear Mister Jain,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> You are speaking about EDoS (Economic Denial of Sustainability). Please see
> the following article :
>
> http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/?s=EDos
>
> Consider a new take on an old problem based on ecommerce: Click-fraud. I
actually deepak was just saying that if you diffuse the botnet enough
you don't have to send more traffic from individual nodes than would
be normally expected. In total they swamp the end service
(potentially). There wasn't any discussion of clickfraud in his note.
