Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

Sat Jan 31 01:56:02 UTC 2004

On Friday 30 January 2004 04:39 pm, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Donovan Hill 
wrote:
> > I think we should help out SCO by creating new wildcard entries into our
> > DNS servers that point *.sco.com to 127.0.0.1 as well as blackholing all
> > SCO SWIPd IP Address Space.
>
> I'm going to be one of the last people who will defend SCO recent
> actions.  However, as much as I hate, and hate is the word, SCO I
> feel the need to speak up after your comments.
>
> Bruce Perens has said it far better than I ever could at
> http://perens.com/SCO/DOS/.  Please read what he has to say.
>
> We (Open Source, ISPs, etc) must, MUST, come to SCO's defense on
> this one.  I am doing what I can with my employer to do just that.
> Allowing attacks like this to succeed, either directly or indirectly
> is far more harmful than allowing SCO to stay online.  We cannot
> condone these actions for any reason, the end does not justify the
> means in the case of worms.

Please don't misunderstand me. I in no way condone or encourage DoS attacking 
SCO/Caldera (or anyone for that matter). To my mind, that'd be like 
encouraging one group of people to attack another group of people for any 
reason. It's certainly not acceptable.

My comments were meant in partial jest and partial frustration. Jest as a 
solution to the pending DDOS and frustration that SCO will spin this as an 
attack by the Linux community against SCO, which it is not. I apologize if I 
didn't make that clear.

For the record, I fully believe that this worm (both variants) is designed to 
attack high profile targets in order to take the focus off of it's spamming 
capability and create uncertainty as to what group actually authored the 
worm. It is my firm belief that this worm was written by spammers for the 
purpose creating spam relays.

Also, for the record, I believe everyone has the right to say what they will 
regardless of legitimacy, and this does include SCO.

Again, I apologize if I gave the wrong impression that the pending DDOS attack 
on SCO was a good thing. It's not.

-- 
Donovan Hill
Electronics Engineering Technologist, CCNA
www.lazyeyez.net, www.gwsn.com