Posted on 02/23/2006 8:13:03 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Dear readers:
Yes, I know the site has been down all morning.
Yes, I've contacted the FBI.
I will try to get back to work, but this has been a bit of a distraction.
Thanks for sticking with me.
"Anymore flip comments?"
I thank you very much for your thoughtful words.
Make that "they're", not "their".
Yeah it is... Let's see who I will choose ---
coward dean, traitor kerry, wicked hillary, michael moore, moveon.org, george soros, air america, katie couric, barbara streisand, jesse jackson, sissy matthews, ossama bin murtha, code pink, the aclu, etc.
vs.
The criminal president of Iran, ossama bin laden, syria's dictator president...
hmmmmmmmmmm
I have to say the 'hacker' was probably someone who supports the first group of lowest form of lowlife dirtbag trash scum of the earths. That group is hands down a greater threat to freedom & liberty in the USA and around the world.
The outstanding men and women of our US military can easily handle the second group.
You're welcome. Grandmother always said "Think before you speak".
Thanks Jack. :)
MIchelle has more cojones than all of Congress combined.
I think Michelle is great, love her work and sad to see this is happening to such a great gal.
Can someone explain why UAE is being blamed for her problems as opposed to perhaps some other organization/group/person?
"Afternoon update: Confirmed DoS attack, with most of the IP addresses belonging to TurkTelecom. Tech people say the attack is shifting to different source addresses. Loading is spotty and slow. Big headache, but we're working on a more permanent solution. Thanks again for your readership."
Just cruise over to DU and see who's bragging about it.
She needs some antihackers to volunteer to help her out! I'm sure there's some takers out there! :)
I think they should be published far and wide, with no rhyme or reason, so that they have no basis to stand on. The fact that some are publishing them and some are NOT, well, shows they are winning their theocracy war.
But on a serious note, I've emailed Michelle once telling her to keep a low profile and be safe. I think this concern of mine was prompted by the Theo Van Gogh killing after he created a short film.
Theo Van Gogh:
It is next to impossible to track down the initiator of a DDoS attack, especially if it comes from a foreign country. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is usually perpetrated by dozens or hundreds of computers - usually without the owners knowing it is going on. Hackers who compromise systems often do so solely to have that system act as a Bot or Zombie. They create sometimes enormous networks of such systems called BotNets and use them for their own nefarious purposes or even rent out time on the BotNets to others willing to pay the price. Even if you track down some of the systems that are sending the packets that are causing the Denial of Service, it is very hard to determine who compromised that system and turned it into a Bot or Zombie. And even if you can figure that out, it is again very difficult to physically track down that person if they're in a foreign country and even harder to get them prosecuted for it.
According to Zone-H's defacement reports and other sources on the Internet, a great many of the eJihad-like attacks occurring right now are coming from Turkey. Good luck tracking him down there and getting him prosecuted.
Well, first to be affected by a Denial of Service, you must first be offering a "service". That service is usually a website. If Cox blocks port 80, then you're not going to be serving a website to too many people.
Second, I just need your IP Address, whether you're running port 80 or port 25 or not, to DoS your box. But, again, if you're not offering a service what service was actually denied? If a tree falls in the forest with no one around, does it make a sound?
Her hosting provider is responsible for defending against or deflecting DDoS attacks. The hosting provider can take several measures to prevent or stop a DDoS while it is occuring. However, a savvy attacker can make their mitigation efforts difficult if he knows what he is doing and has a widely disbursed BotNet. But Michelle says that the attacks have been narrowed down to TurkTelecom. Rackspace should simply blackhole that network or all of Turkey, for that matter, until the attack ceases.
I would blackhole the telcom provider first, then the top level domain if it kept up. Lord knows Interpol won't do anything. Well, I dunno.. they busted up that Zombie net up in the Netherlands... so they might.
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