[38917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS anecdotes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Jun 23 17:55:34 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Date: 23 Jun 2001 14:54:59 -0700
In-Reply-To: tvhawaii@shaka.com's message of "23 Jun 2001 14:45:32 -0700"
Message-ID: <g3bsneq2to.fsf@redpaul.mfnx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I'm having a hard time understanding this. Wouldn't it be easier/simpler for
> these crackers to just install their bots on, oh say, 20 million machines
> running XP than the crackers having to deal with installing the bot -and-
> the code to do the spoofing on Win95/98/98SE/98ME?
Doesn't matter. Either way it's an automated script-kiddie tool. No way
either approach works if it requires manual keystrokes by the attacker.
