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Tracking Mafiaboy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lock-him-up dept.

Cruciform writes "The National Post has an article on the police effort to track Mafiaboy two years ago as the DoS attacks raged against Yahoo, E-trade and others. An interesting read." Its a fairly lengthy story with lots of little bits in this tale of a script kiddie.

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  1. Small attacks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative


    The funny part is that there was nothing new about the attacks. They were not especially large even, he just targeted e-commerce sites instead of IRC servers.

    Attacks of gigabit magnitude happen very often. The tricky part is actually concentrating that kind of bandwidth on a target without bringing down the links halfway to the target.

  2. Re:the interesting part is right at then end by GigsVT · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can't work at nyplgate.nypl.org through RH, but I can through MS.

    I just tried it, pulled up some records, did some searches, it all seems to work fine for me within gnome-terminal.

    Note that in the UNIX paradigm, telnet does not provide terminal emulation, that is up to the terminal program you run telnet from.

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    I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
  3. Re:P(r)eachy.... by oasisbob · · Score: 3, Informative
    Hmm, where do I start citing studies that show the negative effects of negative reinforcement (read: punishment)

    A small point, but negative reinforcement is *not* the same thing as punishment. This is a very common misconception. Negative reinforcement is a concept relating to operant conditioning and learning theory.

    Examples?

    Positive reinforcement: If a mother gives her child candy for being good, this is positive reinforcement. By rewarding the child, she is reinforceing the child behaving well.

    Negative reinforcement: Your car is filthy and it drives you crazy. You decide to clean it out, and it feels great to have a clean car. Cleaning the car removed the adversive stimulus, making you more likely to clean it next time. This mechanism is theorized to be involved in many forms of drug addiction. (Life is difficult, drugs remove anxiety, more likely to use drugs later.)

    See the following pages for more details:
    What is Negative Reinforcement
    Negative Reinforcement, Escape, and Advoidance Learning