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Story: VeriSign: DoS attack could shut down internet
It would be Nice
When government task forces that enforce these kinds of legal issues on the internet have enough funds that they can start breaking down the doors of the users performing these kinds of attacks.
If you were to go into the business district of your town and start barring the entrance from would be customers you better believe the cops will show up within moments to remove you.
Anonymity is a nice thing to have on the internet, but at some point we are going to have to start holding these proxy servers in beijing, or wherever accountable for their traffic. At the very least it would be nice if someone could figure out how to turn these bot-nets against their puppet masters, and see how they like it for a spell. Before arresting their dumb arses. One thing that really pisses me off is these guys have got nothing better to do than disrupt business, etc, now if they were DoS Web 2.0 social networking websites like myspace, friendster, and what have you, I'd actually be cheering them on because these websites serve no purpose what so ever, and do more harm than good for communities as a whole.
You know if these low lifes actually had goals or aspirations in their life, you would think when they turned a million computers into drones, instead of attacking websites, they would install distributed computing systems, like folding@home or Seti, or crunch large meteorological data so maybe we could predict horrible Tornado's sooner or something. You know something actually productive or useful to the community, not that i'm condoning hacking some home users computer, but if an in the event that they did and or will, maybe just maybe they might think about doing something useful with that ability.
Personally, I say we need to find out how to track these ip addresses better, triangulate people's positions over the cellular network if they have their gps turned off, start holding more people accountable.
P.S. I say burn em all
Matt
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