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SCO Not Lying About DoS Attack

Posted by michael on from the even-a-stopped-watch-is-right-twice-daily dept.

Licensed2Hack writes "The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), part of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego has an analysis of the recent DDOS on SCO.com. Netcraft also has more information in their article and analysis graphs. Seems SCO was hit with a 50,000 packet-per-second SYN flood peak, which yields approximately 20 Mb/s each way, or about the capacity of a DS3 line."

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  1. awwww... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    poor little darl..... :)

    1. Re:awwww... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dear Santa,

      What I want for xmas is proper egress filtering on all end point routers.

      That, and a massive IPv6 rollout. Like..tomorrow...say about 3pm...

      Thanks.

  2. Oh come on by puppetluva · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . that's just the slashdot effect. . .

    1. Re:Oh come on by twoslice · · Score: 4, Funny
      Uhm, go here --> sco.com

      ...and JPriest starts another round of DDOS at SCO

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    2. Re:Oh come on by 00420 · · Score: 5, Funny

      it's only in Windows Media Video!

      That doesn't mean you need Windows Media Player to watch it. I just watched it on MPlayer. It's pretty funny in some spots. I like when McBride says "We can look forward to a world that is not free." I think they should make that there company slogan :)

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  3. just another PR trick by kpharmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! now they get headlines simply by *not* lying

    1. Re:just another PR trick by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, for SCO that is remarkable and worthy of a headline.

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      They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
      Ben
    2. Re:just another PR trick by Aardpig · · Score: 3, Funny

      Correct, execept for the fact that the "R t" bit is superfluous. Apart from that, you've got Darl to a tee, my son...

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  4. Nelson said it best. by xenoweeno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha-ha!

  5. SCO Not Lying? by bc90021 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick! Someone start knitting Satan a sweater!

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    1. Re:SCO Not Lying? by gizmonic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Great idea, and to save postage we can just send it with Darl when he goes...

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  6. Oops. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops, oh well. SCO still sucks.

  7. It's funny, laugh. by gnuadam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I guess the lying or incompetent question has been settled.

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  8. "SCO Not Lying " by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 5, Funny
    SCO Not Lying
    Now that is news.
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  9. That really says something... by Rev+Snow · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...when
    They're not lying
    is considered a news story.
  10. Re:Yes but one fact remains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Monkeys! Always bet on the monkeys!

  11. Re:DOS attacks... by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did you just call SCO a legitimate business? *Backs away very slowly*

  12. Re:Yes but one fact remains by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Funny

    you forgot one:

    -the it guys had left the building few months ago.

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  13. Re:SCO Paid Someone...! by Unordained · · Score: 4, Funny

    and even then, only paid them with an I.O.U. -- to be payable if they win against IBM ...

  14. Re:Yes but one fact remains by Smitedogg · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was leaning more towards a time-traveling monkey overlord, personally.

    Then again, it's not nice to always blame Darl.

    Dogg

  15. "SCO Not Lying" by fanatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was bound to happen eventually, if only by random chance - as much as they talk, sooner or later they were bound to say something true.

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  16. Re:Who cares? by llamalover · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the orginal fairy tale, I believe the boy gets eaten. Tragic, but at least the wolf is happy. McBride burger anyone?

  17. SCO MIRROR by segment · · Score: 4, Funny


    Oh never fear I have a mirror up whats the big deal

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    MoFscker
  18. Simpsons quote by towaz · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I didnt do it.. no body saw me do it ..can't prove anything
    . /me ducks

    .

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  19. Re:Bandwidth by Darby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its not like they really would have any trouble paying for a bigger pipe.

    Given the amount of crack they must go through on a daily basis, I'm sure they have a huge collection of pipes.

  20. Are you sure? by BCW2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That it wasn't customers rushing to pay their linux liscense fees because the court case is going so well?

    and Daryl wouldn't lie either.

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  21. maybe? by di0s · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe what it really means is Denial of Settlement.