[186361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Corbe)
Sat Dec 12 08:50:36 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Corbe <dcorbe@hammerfiber.com>
In-Reply-To: <254A692C-2050-4E6E-9A9A-3E1E2B7ECB1A@baylink.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 08:50:29 -0500
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Dec 12, 2015, at 1:18 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>=20
> Is McAfee just talking to dry his teeth here? This isn't actually =
practical, is it? Carriers would notice, right?
Whether carriers might notice (or even care, because hey we can bill for =
data!) is debatable. But...
>=20
> =
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-massive-ddos-attack-internet-was-smar=
tphone-botnet-popular-app-1532993
"and the unsophisticated way the botnet could be implemented through a =
simple smartphone app, suggests hackers sympathetic to Islamic State =
(Isis) may be behind it."
"The majority of the domain servers are controlled by U.S. interests - =
three are controlled by the US government. Who has the largest axe to =
grind? Isis. Who has the most to gain? Isis. Isis certainly has the =
technical capability to write a popular app.=E2=80=9D
He certainly is making some wild leaps of logic here.
This is the most substantive sentence in the article: "But I have no =
direct evidence.=E2=80=9D
