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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."'"
We will fight them with Good Advertising, Meaningless Propaganda, and silly overarching statements. We will fight them with astroturf and BS, and make piles of money off of people who aren't as good at watching for ad-embedded storytelling as we are.
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The whole article was BS. Read it with a critical eye, look at who the hero was. Some PR firm is cackling with glee over how well they've snowed so many Slashdotters. It's an epic story with a powerful hero and a lot of fluff.
Who on the planet is going to bother hacking an ICQ address? You can just register yourself through a free e-mail address.... Masking your IP is the hard part, and ICQ logs a lot of the IP stuff going on. This article is so far-fetched and pathetically badly written from a technical standpoint I'm surprised noone's just screamed bloody murder.
Except me, of course. Three times now.
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Now, if you'd read the article, you would learn that The Golden Boy From California had recommended a few 'off the shelf' products and (unlike all those consultants who actually want customers) hoped to 'never hear from them again.' Tipping Point falls under this category. This article was stupid, and (as I've said in my other posts) more a PR company's success than actual news.
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The article is about online extortion via botnets and the entire first 200 pages of responses are about the Battle of Britain and how America saved the world from the evil Europeans...again.
Morons.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
See, I don't understand the association either.
A) You're a lan admin at an ISP that hosts for banks. Good for you.
B) You carry guns. Fine, whatever.
So.. what did you do? Walk up to him in his seat at teh Con, and have every person in the company point their gun at him? No, no probably not. *insert eye roll*
And what are you all planning?
"DUDE! We're getting hacked!"
"Damn good thing we all have guns!"
*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
"That solved it. I'd like to see ANYONE hack a box with bullet holes through the mother board!"
Uh Huh...
"There is a reason Linux is free"
~me~
Pay up - along with an offer to double the payment if they will hit microsoft.com for at least three week.