[AusNOG] Film industry soliciting DDOS attacks?

[Vitaly Osipov]

I do not understand why you keep talking about the government
interacting with botmasters. I did give a quite innocently-looking
example of an arms-length action in my email just before.

A completely legal example - AFACT gets an authorisation to "disrupt
communications", hires an IT company to build a click farm in Amazon
EC2, pays for it (what is cloud computing if not an evolved botnet,
anyway?), uses it to bring the site in question down.


Regards,
Vitaly




On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Vitaly Osipov wrote:
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>> 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.
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> The miscreants are certainly trying to make use of cloud services for various types of badness, usually paid for with stolen credit cards, and the cloud providers are constantly combatting this phenomenon.]
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>> Arbor knows that, I am sure.
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> Yes, we do.  Although the conceptual leap from 'we all know that bad guys make use of botnets built from compromised hosts as well as misusing IaaS/VPS services whenever possible' to 'imminent government plans issue letters of marque and reprisal to botmasters for DDoS attacks, botmasters awarded George Cross' isn't one I'm quite prepared to make, at this juncture.
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