[172078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Large DDoS, small extortion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri May 23 13:14:13 2014
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From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:13:39 -0400
To: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJvB4tnXjGv2VU8=K67boFKG0LONaGS6Ewwh_DQ0PwD83WVoqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Sure, of course, many of us have. But how is $VICTIM supposed to
distinguish the wheat from the chaff without reference to specific
cases and results?
Some reasonable-sounding suggestions could be counter-productive or
even downright dangerous (depending on the nature of the attacker.) Or
a waste of time.
On May 22, 2014 at 23:22 ikiris@gmail.com (Blake Dunlap) wrote:
> Most of us wish we didn't. There are so much more productive ways to=
> spend the day than fighting a determined and adaptive attacker.
>=20
> -Blake
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> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net=
> wrote:
> >
> > On May 23, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote=
:
> >
> >> Some real life experience and results, case studies.
> >
> > Some of us have quite a bit of real-life experience and results in=
these situations.
> >
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> > Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.c=
om>
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> > Equo ne credite, Teucri.
> >
> > -- Laoco=C3=B6n
> >
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