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From: Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:37:04
Message-Id: 20130403113529.160f0d0b@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:33:17 +0200
2 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
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5 > But somebody had to blow it up. And even more people jumped on it.
6 > Boohoo.
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8 > So the next time you start insulting people, base your findings on
9 > more than a blog written by those guys who have an economical
10 > interest to blow the whole mess out of proportion.
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12 > Of course, those responsible - all those guys with unpatched boxes
13 > whose little zombies took part in this attack, need a good kicking.
14 > But that is no excuse for spamming mailing lists with something the
15 > media already abused to no end.
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17 Yeah because it is all their fault. You know the cleaner down the road
18 and not Microsoft (linux is beginning to follow a similar road awayfrom
19 it's secure fs based and modular approach with polkit), Adobe or the
20 IETF who though warned turned 3gbit/s into 300gbit/s.
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22 Hmmm, imagine a worm red now and with ntp so prevalent too.
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24 Blown out of proportion, really?, maybe this particular instance? I can
25 understand the list spam argument though.