Well, when gambling starts killing people, let me know. Drugs kill people, so are controlled. Guns kill people, so are controlled. Gambling has it's risks, and is controlled too. But outlawing it?
Quite why Gambling should be outlawed yet the possesion of a deadly weapon is ok is beyond me.
Firstly, the legality issue is weird to me. I come from the UK were licensed gambling (be it online or in real life) is perfectly legal. I find it rather ammusing that a whole State would ban something like gambling.
Anyway, people seem to think that the reason a site dies during a DDoS attack is CPU usage. It's not. It's not related to the servers at all (at least not in the case of big attacks)
We were recently hit by a DDoS attack (don't ask) and we were having our 100mb uplink saturated. That's where the problem occured. Our 13 machines could cope with the requests - the pipe couldn't.
Even if we went to a Gig uplink (which was considered), they'd simply saturate that. A few hundred compromised machines on DSL/Cable can easily do that. Scary stuff I must admit.
Slashdot Mirror
"Federal penitentiary"
THEY'RE NOT IN THE US!
*sigh* There are just somethings that are best done with Flash *mutterings about tradtionalists*
"over £1500 pounds" is like saying "over $1500 dollars" /flamebait (sorry)
It's a national newspaper, I can't see it being slashdotted... (thats like NYT being slashdotted!)
To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation."
They intimidate the site by saying "give us money, or we DDoS you"
My local bingo hall operates an online Slot Machine site, so I made an assumption
Quite why Gambling should be outlawed yet the possesion of a deadly weapon is ok is beyond me.
Firstly, the legality issue is weird to me. I come from the UK were licensed gambling (be it online or in real life) is perfectly legal. I find it rather ammusing that a whole State would ban something like gambling. Anyway, people seem to think that the reason a site dies during a DDoS attack is CPU usage. It's not. It's not related to the servers at all (at least not in the case of big attacks) We were recently hit by a DDoS attack (don't ask) and we were having our 100mb uplink saturated. That's where the problem occured. Our 13 machines could cope with the requests - the pipe couldn't. Even if we went to a Gig uplink (which was considered), they'd simply saturate that. A few hundred compromised machines on DSL/Cable can easily do that. Scary stuff I must admit.