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RE: "Make love, not spam"....

  • From: chuck goolsbee
  • Date: Mon Nov 29 18:22:25 2004 


It's a DDOS. The risk of collateral damage is  high.



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From what limited information is available in the articles, it
doesn't sound that way. It's not really a DDoS attack, but more of
a "distributed web surfing bot."
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I understand this as more of a Distributed Consumption of Service
attack. (Is the acronym DCoS used yet?) Real requests, downloading
real data, to real computers. A lot of them. T

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The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script kiddie with
zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint and not
knock down websites with brute force. They're attempting to use the
politically correct "grown up" way to attack someone: economics.



How is giving the spammers what they want (real web site traffic) an
attack? That doesn't even qualify!



How many bogus URLs are embedded into spam content? A: Lots.

They are used to obscure words to get past filters, or as red herring
targets or joe-jobs. A DDoS is a DDoS, no matter how "benign" one
might think it is, or how "evil/deserving" the target is perceived to
be.





The risk of collateral damage is way too high.

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Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations

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