Re: [Sheflug] Bit of a Goodie

[Michael Williams <nospam [at] st-annes.oxford.ac.uk>]

Andy Smith wrote:
> > http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
> >
> It's interesting but a little tabloid in nature.  A number of people
> pointed out that
> 
> a) If his ISP took 17 hours to deal with this kind of stuff then
>    either he needs a new ISP, or maybe he was being very obstructive
>    to them.
> 
> b) There was no need to deny all UDP.. this broke his DNS and other
>    services when all attacks were hitting one UDP port that he could
>    have filtered.
> 
> c) It was a very bad idea to help the script kiddie with his bots
>    (which were no doubt used to inflict pain on other people) just
>    to gain cred in the kiddie community.

The Register have been covering this in some detail for a while now. You
might be interested to take a look at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20160.html and the related
stories (linked at the bottom). Apparently there was an interview with
Gibson and the Reg correspondent which will soon be available from the
Register site. Should make interesting reading...

-- 
Michael Williams
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