[90452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Thu May 25 06:38:53 2006
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 05:38:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87psi2quks.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> * Gadi Evron:
>
> > http://news.google.com/news?q=black+frog
> >
> > How do we make this folly stop?
>
> Ignore it? It's an inactive Sourceforge project (with some Google
> forums attached), and news reports seem to be based on a Slashdot
> diary entry announcing it:
Ignoring is the high-road. How long are we going to cry about the Internet
being a battle-ground, the wild west, or whatever else if we legitimize
DDoS?
Sometimes being quiet is not going to win the war. There will be other
Blue Frogs.
>
> <http://slashdot.org/~Spy+der+Mann/journal/135727>
>
> There are far more dangerous Sourceforge projects out there. 8-/
>
