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DDoS for Fun and Profit
First there's the Microsoft worm, reported earlier, which in addition to all the other damage has apparently knocked Microsoft's Windows XP activation servers (and Bank of America ATMs) off the net. Then we've got a report about the ongoing demise of DALnet, perhaps not the way we expected it to go. And Canada discovers a risk of online voting.
Geez, Dalnet and EFnet are beginning to sound like Apple - they're *always* "going out of business" or something like that.
Wait, the difference is that Apple is still on the net. Heh.
1. Orchestrate DDoS
2. ????
3. Profit!
like when Apple started charging for .mac services.
I would put money on it that tommorow will be the generally fastest day of the internet all year (not saying much it's january). Everything important will be patched, and all the home pc owners that don't know jack about computers will say, "I don't want to catch that virus I heard about on the news, I better wait a day untill it dies down". Thus more bandwidth for everyone else.
leprkan...
why would they use online voting when they could simply use chad-laden punch cards??
The Super Bowl will be on.
"Korean computers were cut off the net"...
Pity that they will be reconnected...
So torn...should I damn Microsoft for providing easy replicative means to fuck up the net all day, or thank them for providing the means to disable the XP activiation servers?
When your enemy is their own worst enemy, does that make them your friend?
Head...aching...
I didn't get any spam today... can you guys do this DDOS thing more often? :)
I hope the people who are responsible for this attack (which is technically terrorism) are thrown in jail. It will likely be a long sentence.
I seriously doubt Bill Gates and other Microsoft programmers will spend any time in jail at all over this.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
How would you feel if the servers you get open-source applications from were made unusable because someone attacked the network they were hosted on?
:p
I'd hardly call VA's lack of a business plan an "attack" on SourceForge.
NO CARRIER
... this would be the most interest anyone has shown in this leadership race!
Post 9/11 Godwin's Law corollary: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the chances of a comparison involving terrorism or bin Laden approaches one.
I therefore declare this thread over and whatever ideas you meant to express discredited.
I guess it's good that Kevin Mitnick has started his own consulting firm. Hmmmm.
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Let me try my first profit post:
1) Free Kevin
2) Start Consulting Firm
3) (cough... cough)
4) Profit!
Seriously - I'd hate to be Kevin Mitnick right now... There's probably 20 different gov't agencies all getting the warrants right now. "This much havoc can only come from ONE man!" Mwuwuwuwahahhahaha.
Like Teddy with an elephant gun.
MS-SQL certainly wasn't the problem according to election.com's Earl Hurd. In a CBC TV scrum-style interview, he was quick to blame the problem on a malicious 'hacker' that had logged into the voting system. When asked by the media if such an attack could reoccur, he replied "unless the creative individual died in the last five minutes as a result of my evil thoughts, then there is a chance that another attact is possible".
Rapidly approaching the Zener knee...
what, their nose?
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Incite and flee.
In that case, I believe the correct term is Service Pack.
Paypall.
I can't believe that BoA has their ATM's on the internet ...
;)
Duh!
Don't you know that all major ISP's use their ATM network to connect to each others routers?!
-- MrMud