[163122] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What hath god wrought?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Mon May 20 14:59:27 2013
In-Reply-To: <CACg3zYEmSjo2xQnXXYg8OLHU_85C=3RYWs_nza8j=hqKBBeXpg@mail.gmail.com>
From: Charles Wyble <charles-lists@knownelement.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 13:58:49 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
No proxy needed. No need to hide.
While working for a very large hosting company, I once observed DHS hammering an occupy related website. No attempt to hide the source ip or anything.
What are you going to do? Sue them? If they wish to take a site offline, they will ddos it or simply seize the domain under the national security banner.
"<<"tei''>>>" <oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 20 May 2013 01:58, Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com> wrote:
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>http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/ddos-for-hire-service-works-with-blessing-of-fbi-operator-says/
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>More on the same topic.
>http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/ragebooter-legit-ddos-service-or-fed-backdoor/#more-19475
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>Maybe the FBI use this to commit crimes in USA using a foreign company
>as proxy so nothing dirty show on the books. That way the FBI can
>avoid respecting USA laws.
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>ℱin del ℳensaje.
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Charles Wyble
charles@knownelement.com / 818 280 7059
CTO Free Network Foundation (www.thefnf.org)
