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Sun Grid DOS'd
feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "
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The way the summary is written, you'd think that actual site was down or something. But the website and grid itself was fine - it was just the free example (running on separate hardware) that got busy. (I dunno how busy - I accessed it yesterday and it was fine at the time).
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I dunno, Slashdot could have reported on something more meaningful - like Sun GPL'ing their latest processor. You can download it here:
http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/download_hw.htm
There's a decent write-up here:
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn032106-story01
Manufacturing fab not included...
That's assuming we believe Sun when they say "hackers" did this. Until I see more evidence I think they're doing another publicity stunt, trying to promote their authentication system and a "more civil society". Either that or to explain why the Grid is having problems handling the bandwidth, etc. I simply don't trust them. They have a long way to go to earn my trust. I trust Sun to be Sun like I trust hackers to be hackers.
This proves that Google has better grid computing than Sun's - it computes the answer in less that a second:
o +life%2C+the+universe+and+everything&btnG=Google+S earch
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+t
That position dovetails with one long held by Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy. "Absolute anonymity breeds irresponsibility," he said in a 2003 interview. "Audit trails and authentication provide a much more civil society."
They only proved that partial anonymity breeds irresponsibility. Sun and any sort of response they make would have a tough time being anonymous. So, on one hand you have the "bad guys" who have almost complete anonymity to cover their 'extra-legal' activities and on the other hand you have the "good guys" without much anonymity and so are unable to respond in kind.
Adding audit trails and authentication just changes the identities of the "bad guys" from those who are outside the system to those who own the system and thus can erase the audit trails as needed (for example, the brazilian the british coppers shot and killed in the tube last summer - despite being the most surveiled society on the planet the incident was not recorded on camera due to a 'temporary malfunction' -- yeah RIGHT).
Cool things that could have been done with this free service (Sun suggests making blogs into podcasts)...
Speaking of which if anyone is interested in doing this, you can use OS X's (so-so) voices:
$ say -f blogfile.txt -o podcast.aiff
Then use iTunes to convert to MP3 or AAC. `man say` for more options. Introduced in 10.3.
I'm not saying this is better than what Sun offered, or that those hackers weren't assholes... just mentioning something that people might be interested in.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
The question is are you paranoid enough?
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/14222
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/toolkit/security/
http://www.gridtoday.com/03/0526/030526.html
http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html
This thing has a lot of people's names on it. If it flops someone has to take the blame.