[73596] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI bust DDoS 'Mafia'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James)
Mon Aug 30 12:04:03 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:02:49 -0400
From: James <haesu@towardex.com>
To: John Obi <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>
Cc: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>,
Ricardo Rick Gonzalez <rico.gonzalez@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040830082121.76982.qmail@web41704.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:21:21AM -0700, John Obi wrote:
>
> It's not not OT, or about politics.
>
> It's not about they are guilty or not since I Don't
> care.
>
> It's about that "the FBI finally cares, and will bust
> the script kiddies."
>
> This will scare them and will decrease the DDoS
> attacks from now and on.
D/DoS is a fact of life that happens continuously non-stop. FBI intervening
here probably may have certain effect in general atmosphere among the
packet kiddies, but there is no solid data that says DDoS attacks have
decreased.
>
> So ISPs and NSPs should work more with FBI and such
> parties to decrease the DDoS.
More like, ISP and NSP's should start with things like BCP38/uRPF on their
edge boxes, and start deploying features & systems that assist their customers
in the event of DDoS (e.g. bgp blackhole).
-J
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