Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

Wed Dec 8 04:38:03 UTC 2010

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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net>
wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

>> Other than trying to hide your real address, what can be done to prevent
>> DDOS in the first place.
>
> Don't piss people off on IRC? :)
>

After I laughed for a minute or two, you're exactly right -- although the
social & political issues involved go far beyond IRC.

Witness the back-and-forth DoS attacks involving Wikileaks and
Anti-Wikileaks proponents going on right now.

But this is not a new phenomenon -- every time there is a perceived insult
or slight against Chinese pride/culture, it always spurs some sort of DoS
attack scenario with grassroots support.

These sorts of attacks have been going on for years, and will escalate far
into the future, methinks.

$.02,

- - ferg

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