Re: Hypothesis regarding recent DDoS attacks

I'm not sure I understand.  You started off with saying they are easy
enough already and then went off on a tangent.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Colin Gallagher <
colingallagher.rpcv@gmail.com> wrote:

> You're not missing much. I bet you have already seen the Norse
> visualizations. What's bothersome is these attacks are so easy to pull off
> that it's not even a "man-children" or "internet of things" attribution. So
> the cost of association of a person or a group with a non-event becomes so
> low that the fruit is lower hanging for most Tor devs to let players keep
> playing them for attention that comes to Tor, rather that focusing on
> silently addressing node and certificate authority issue problems. Which
> they are, but with a sort of exaggerated sense of denial about the ongoing
> attacks.
>
> Watch and get free entertainment as some dude from Mega throws bazillions
> of credits around to "MAKE IT STOP" and then the hacks resume again after
> money is received. Sad.
>
> As I've pointed out before the reason I wouldn't agree to participate in
> Web Payments group or its conf calls was the ludicrous CLA which in many
> ways literally said, "If you call in, all your ideas are belong to us
> forever." Kind of like .... SONY
>
> so obv I never called in.
>
> Basically:
> These firms / nonprofits (often tainted by too much exposure to the
> infobleedment industry, eg Sony, Mega, Tor, etc) release funds to keep the
> hacks going a bit longer. To get attention in a market that is getting
> tougher (hell, look at slur.io's model - and they'll be gone soon because
> they don't publish keys for gpg etc). The cybercybercyber attacks (past few
> days mostly between US, China, with Russians watching and eating popcorn
> according to NORSE) made ppl run around in circles in low places, like
> Hollywood, White House, and a local garbage incinerator.
>
> I love my privacy (even tho I am contacting you today via gmail) but for
> serious comnunications I use open source and serious crypto, not this stuff.
>
> Ok ciao... happy new year
> On Dec 27, 2014 4:35 PM, "Zijyfe Duufop" <zdoofop@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Something occured to me recently:
>>
>> As you know, there has been a rash of DDoS attacks on pretty much
>> everything from XBox to North Korea.  From what I understand, different
>> hacker groups are claiming responsibility for nearly every single attack.
>>
>> Now, it occurs to me that the possibility that a bunch of hackers
>> starting to form groups at around the same time is highly unlikely.
>> However, there is another interesting, and more likely explanation: new
>> tech.
>>
>> This tech would have to make DDoS so easy, your grandmother could do it.
>> It would have to be affordable, reliable, adaptable, and known throughout
>> the hacker community, but not necessarily to the general public.  It would
>> have to be run through a server in such a way that not one of the attacks
>> used can be linked.  And, most importantly, it would have to be intelligent
>> enough to find a weak link in the destination and exploit it.  If I am
>> correct, then man-children in basements everywhere are trying to glorify
>> themselves by taking down high profile targets and then boasting about it
>> in a way that makes them seem bigger than they are.
>>
>> Am I completely wrong?  Am I missing something?  Is this not even news?
>> Why do I feel like this is too obvious?
>>
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