Re: Hypothesis regarding recent DDoS attacks

Surely I must have been overly tired. Ignore me.
On Dec 28, 2014 3:17 PM, "Zijyfe Duufop" <zdoofop@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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