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Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS
devilkin writes "As a recent Slashdot story indicates, SCO claims their website was the target of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Was it really? The people at Groklaw think otherwise..."
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If it's true that SCO is lying or too inept to know what's happening then somehow this has to make it to the mainstream press. That would do more damage to their stock value than any DDoS.
Trolling is a art,
or at least, not necessarily, so the fact that the FTP server is up is not necessarily a pointer to the fact that SCO are lying through their teeth. (They may still be, but ...)
The thing that's odd is that they think it disrupted their intranet - who in their right mind merges the public internet server and internal intranet server ???
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
I don't doubt their claims, they are clearly lying. Instead of discussing the obvious, that they are not under a DDoS attack, we should be asking ourselves why they are faking an attack.
Some people have pointed out that they are doing it to remove self incriminating evidence from their website. Very likely.
Another plausible speculation is that they are going to use this fake attack as an excuse to delay showing the evidence the judge demanded. I wouldn't be surprised if they go as far as saying that some "evil free software hugger" performed the attack to erase the evidence from all their computers, and use that as an excuse to insist that IBM should show their code first.
And no, these are not conspiracy theories, because the evidence is enough to prove they are faking the attack. They are doing it for a very good reason.
The most probable explanation - they recompiled apache so it doesn't reveal the host OS, made all the other changes, and fubar'd the update. rather than admit it, they claimed a DoS attach.
The absolutely best hypothesis is that they're doing it to purge the bad news off the newssites. There was news about the motion to compell hearing (which wasn't SCO's finest hour. Read the transcript here. Check p55 if you're in a hurry) and about the SCO - Boies - Investor-relationship which also was very bad news for SCO, because they want people to belive Boies is on a continguency (apparently that implies 'faith in the lawsuit').
Where is that now? Gone.
Instead we have stories about poor, poor SCO being attacked by those evil linux users.
How many companies release Press Releases about being under attack?! On the same day, no less!
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Most members of the press are as interested in the truth as Darl McBride is, and they are equally compentent in technology matters.
Face it a bunch of angry hackers attacking SCO makes a better story than the truth. Especailly using the 10 word headline format that is so prevelant in the US.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
I think we should have an informal fund raiser for groklaw.
They (that guy?) does a lot for the good of the world (fighting evil (sco) is not just good for linux, it's good for "right").
So, I'll donate $5 to his paypal, and I highly recommend that everyone else do the same. $5 isn't much, but * slashdot it's a lot. Surely we've spent a lot of their money on bandwidth, not to mention the free research time they've spent.
.sigs are for post^Hers.