2012-03-28, 05:56 PM
Eos Wrote:It'd take a sustained attack of days for this to be all that meaningful and I'd be impressed if they could manage it. A subtle takeover and poisoning of the 13 clusters would be far more damaging and impressive because depending on how hushed they kept it that could feed the downstream cache's and take ages to clean up.
Actually, that makes sense to me; every couple weeks I have to let a few new IPs through my filter because nexon changes a few of their web server IPs. Until a site makes that change, even if anon managed to take out all 13 of those clusters, the site would still load.
Also, my former question still remains; any idea if that UDP trick they are touting will actually work to the extent that they are claiming it will?
Corn Wrote:You'd think at least one person out of the 6 billion of us would do it.
Even if it was a "good" person he/she might do it just for the laughs and to see if they could.
There's no way in hell a single person could do this, unless they were a billionaire with hundreds if not thousands of state of the art PCs and were some sort of genius-savant with PCs on top of that. I can only think of one person I've actually met that was good enough with computers to figure out some loophole that would work well enough to take down the entire internet, and he was a teacher at my school who made his own personal programming language, and built an operating system for his computers from scratch. And yes, he was VERY insane, like, clinically, if you tried to sit down and have a real talk with him. They just kept him around as a head of the netsec department to answer questions from exceedingly precocious students, and he taught one or two of the highest end classes for it as well.