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Taking on an Online Extortionist
An anonymous reader writes "When an online exortionist comes a knocking, threatining a DDoS, do you pay or fight? For many, paying may seem like a sensible option when compared to going out of buisness. CSO Magazine has a riveting article about how an online gambling site and a DDoS specialist teamed up to take on such an extortionist. When everybody else was rolling over and paying, this company risked its very existence to fight back. From the article: '"The attack went to 1.5Gb, with bursts up to 3Gb. It wasn't targeted at one thing. It was going to routers, DNS servers, mail servers, websites. It was like a battlefield, where there's an explosion over here, then over there, then it's quiet, then another explosion somewhere else," says Lyon. "They threw everything they had at us. I was just in shock."'"
Sounds like you're trying to compensate for something with all this macho talk. Do you also have a jacked-up truck to compensate for your small penis?
Sounds like you're trying to compensate for something with all this macho talk. Do you also have a jacked-up truck to compensate for your small penis?
Sounds like you were turned on by his gun talk and you're hoping to get some of that penis. Can't handle someone else in the spotlight? Flimsy ego you're sporting there, slick...
PAY, although this may damage your ego.
The initial cash demands were a few thousands dollars. Too bad if you have to pay that.
In the end he lost revenue worth many times this amount, including the inital demanded amount EACH YEAR, but excluding revenue losses due to the downtime and lost customers.
I'm not sure if a great story would all be worth that. On the other hand it's nice to finally see a good solution.
We know what Bush would say in response to such an email threat:
"Bring it on!"
Of course this would be followed by years of destructive cyber bombings, slowly wittling away at a few of his Servers every day. But would Bush care? Of course not, because he's got UPGRADES he must justify. Kind of hard for a SysAdmin to ask for appropriations to replace Servers that are still functioning, isn't it? Nothing like a good, old fashioned DDOS to serve your greater goals...
(IOW, why send the money to the Extortionists, when you can GET that money to get new toys to replace the ones "they" will destroy?)
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Internationa Usury is usruping power of Jews cast form wealth of north america they have pocketed, thanks to 0 cumilative saving, take all saving and loans internal and external in United States of America. Yay credit cards, Jews can usurp unwashed masses again.
2c.
PS: dont forget send money to Israel for buldosers and tomhawk missles aimed at rock throwing palestine kids.