[133444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mastercard problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken)
Thu Dec 9 13:30:27 2010
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:25:48 -0500
From: Ken <ken@sizone.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D011B0C.4000405@csuohio.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:08:12PM -0500, Michael Holstein said:
>
>> The tool makes HTTP/1.0 requests, most browsers make HTTP/1.1 requests.
>>
>
>Realistically, if the folks from Anonymous wanted to really cause
>trouble, they'd be doing (legitimate looking) SSL requests against the
>actual payment gateways. The force-multiplier there is the computational
>effort it takes to negotiate a DH key exchange.
>
>For bonus points, call the voice auth service simultaneously and just
>sit on hold.
Did you just aid & abet?
Guess we're all about full disclosure here..?
Except when its not easy to fix, like DDOS's arent.
/kc
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