[AusNOG] Film industry soliciting DDOS attacks?

[Vitaly Osipov]

The phrasing could be just a re-framing exercise. How about a warrant
from the govt to AFACT authorising them to disrupt communications of
whatever pirate web site? Sounds quite legit.

Also, nobody is talking about compromising computers to form a botnet.
These days it is easy to spin one up quite legally in, say, Amazon
cloud for a reasonable price, although it is of course not as cheap as
illegal ones, which go for a few bucks an hour for DoS capacity in
hundreds mbps/gigabits of traffic. Arbor knows that, I am sure.

Regards,
Vitaly




On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Vitaly Osipov wrote:
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>> So in Australia they could simply get a warrant from the government.
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> In my experience, it isn't usual for governments to issue letters of marque and reprisal to botmasters, though you do raise an interesting point.
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> ;>
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