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RE: DDOS attacks

2004-06-29 17:56:15


"Gordon" == Gordon Fecyk <gordonf(_at_)pan-am(_dot_)ca> writes:

    Gordon> Al Capone of Cyberspace.  "Don't even think of doing this
    Gordon> or we'll hurt you."

I can't tell whether that's tongue-in-cheek or not.  But if you
haven't been following what's been happening to DNS blaklists over the
last year, that's pretty much exactly what's going on at the moment.

Spammers, hackers and organized crime gangs are very much working
together.  People running blacklists are getting targetted by large
scale DDoS attacks in an attempt to get them to give up, and several
prominent blacklists have shut down over the past year because they
couldn't cope.  All but the largest ISP's are now I suspect likely to
be unwilling to host a customer that runs a high profile blacklist,
because they know that they can't cope with the inevitable DDoS
attacks.

        -roy


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