[133276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Dec 7 23:38:15 2010
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:38:03 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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
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