DDOS anecdotes

Sat Jun 23 21:54:59 UTC 2001

> I'm having a hard time understanding this.  Wouldn't it be easier/simpler for
> these crackers to just install their bots on, oh say, 20 million machines
> running XP than the crackers having to deal with installing the bot -and-
> the code to do the spoofing on Win95/98/98SE/98ME?

Doesn't matter.  Either way it's an automated script-kiddie tool.  No way
either approach works if it requires manual keystrokes by the attacker.