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China's .cn Domain Servers Suffer DDoS Attack
jfruh writes "For years, DDoS attacks on various websites have been routinely launched by hackers within China. Now an attack of this sort has been launched against the foundations of the Chinese Internet — the domain servers for the country's top-level .cn domain. The attack raged over the weekend, disrupting and slowing access to .cn sites."
Really, are we stooping to that level of journalism?
DDoS attacks on various websites have been routinely launched by hackers within China
Hackers like these launching attacks from inside China? No longer can we just blindly accept that "launched by hackers within China" actually means that the hacker is or works for the Chinese...
The problem is that there are too many people who don't care or know that their computers are in bot nets and there are tensions about hacking each other in the air. I'm guessing that this is some group of people trying to start something larger. It would be good to tone it down a bit, as this kind of thing mostly hurts countries whose economies are tied to the Internet.
They should treat infected computers the same way they treat infected people.
With quarantines.
If you've got some sort of disease, the health police get to confine you. Even if it's not your fault you got sick, because the quarantine is to protect the public, which is why your freedom to go as you please is subordinate to the public's freedom not to catch your germs.
They should treat infected computers the same way. It doesn't matter if it's your fault it got infected or not. If your computer is putting the internet at risk, it should be quarantined. I don't care if the user of the computer is inconvenienced or if it's not his fault. He is harming the internet just the same.
If you defiantly refuse to care or fix it, you should be hit even harder, because at that point you're effectively aiding and abetting whatever criminal activity the hacker is using your computer for.
If I was an ISP and a customer failed to have their computer cleaned up after I warned them, I would terminate their access for abuse. Once they know and refuse to take care of it, they are complicit.
Meanwhile, my wife here in the US will no longer be able to Skype with her parents so they can spend some remote time with their new grandchild.
Fucked up world we live in. 15 years ago, I was always optimistic that technology would solve most of the worlds social problems and give way to world peace. I couldn't have been more wrong. Technology was an open tool to be used by the assholes of the world for subversion and domination.
Life is not for the lazy.