"Make love, not spam"....
Rich Kulawiec
rsk at gsp.org
Mon Nov 29 23:50:37 UTC 2004
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0600, Jerry Pasker wrote:
> The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script kiddie with
> zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint and not knock
> down websites with brute force.
I have no idea whether they're mature enough. They're most certainly
not knowledgeable enough, as they appear to have failed to account for:
- zombie'd end-user systems (some of which will no doubt
download this DoS tool)
- web sites hosted on zombies (and serving requests sent
to them either by rapidly-updating DNS or redirectors)
- throwaway domains
- hijacked ASNs
among other standard spammer tricks, all of which can be used to
deflect the attack or redirect it against third parties.
But beyond that: this is a silly tactic. Spammers have as much
[free, to them] bandwidth as they want. They're trying to drown
people who "own" the ocean.
---Rsk
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