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From: william(at)elan.net ("william)
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 10:55:59 EDT
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>> I hate to be the bearer of bad news to spammers :) but based on
>> bluesecurity's tactics I can make a guess about attitude of their
>> people and its such that DoS attack on them will only cause them
>> more determination to continue and I suspect to majority of their users as
>> well (and publicity is also likely to bring them more users).
>>
>> Moving the site to TypePad was incorrect way of dealing with attack
>> though; but its actually not the first time I've heard of the site
>> using a blog as temporary page while their primary site is down due
>> to DoS... - some education on what blogs are good for is in order.
>> But as it is looks like bluesecurity is moving to prolexic which
>> claim to deal with just such situations.
>
> I hate to be the bearer of bad news to BS' VC's, but BS moving their
> DNS to UltraDNS and hosting to Prolexic was likely not part of the business
> plan. "They ain't cheap". The spammers can now theoretically force them
> to spend all time and all their money responding to attacks.
You know quite well that if they continue dos for too long law-enforcement
would finally get interested... Now I really don't know UDNS and Prolexic
prices but I have a feeling those hosting fees would be far from being
their biggest expense. So I have to disagree with you that is what could
bring them down, though I agree that as usual a lot depends on if their
VCs want all this going - I just don't think hosting fees will be major
reason for such a decision (unless BS self-funded which I doubt).
> The killer here is that they asked a lot of people a year ago whether
> this was a good idea and everyone said no.
Yep and they were all right.
> Spammers: 2 Blue Security: 0
> NANOG: -2 (vigilante time sink)
Its more like:
Spammers: -2 Blue Security: -1 Nanog: 0 (talk is cheap but results are...)
-- William Leibzon Elan Networks
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