[96743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed May 23 15:32:05 2007
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0705231503430.12044@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Sean Donelan wrote:
> I wonder, does this mean Estonia is now more likely to act/re-act to its
> own homegrown miscreants which attack systems in other countries after
> seeing the impact it had in their own country? Or is this going to remain
> a case of the "bad guys" are always in some other country, not mine.
By "bad guys" do you mean the bots, or the C&C? I think in
non-state-actor attacks, prosecution of C&C has been reasonably good.
It's the botnets that I worry about. All those people still paying
Microsoft to make their machines zombies. :-/
-Bill
