[90454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Thu May 25 09:16:31 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060525123743.GE1400@burnout.tpb.net>
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 06:16:04 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On May 25, 2006, at 5:37 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
> * ge@linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron) [Thu 25 May 2006, 12:38 CEST]:
>> Sometimes being quiet is not going to win the war.
>
> It would behoove you, however, to not cry wolf so often
Maybe it would behoove network operators to not encourage kids to
build distributed botnet systems[1] in the name of vigilante justice:
http://www.legrice.net/Okopipi/OkopipiNetworkFlow.jpg
http://www.legrice.net/Okopipi/OkopipiBasicSystemOverview.jpg
Blue Security shouldn't be glorified for what they did, they should
be nailed for DoS'ing SixApart.
-david
1: Granted, based on those pictures, we might not have a lot to worry
about... ;)
