Re: Speaking of spamhaus...

Steve Atkins <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:08:21 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
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On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 27/03/2013 15:26, Barry Shein wrote:
>> Possibly interesting:
>> 
>> Big DDoS against SpamHaus, allegedly by CyberBunker...
>> 
>>   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
> Yes, I saw that as well. Not really sure what can be learned from it though.

A 300Gb/s attack that lasts well over a week tells me that spammers are criminals, ISP security desks aren't sufficiently responsive about abuse coming from their networks and that pipes are really quite big.

More on-topic, remember that any FUSSP you come up with needs to be robust against whatever behaviour it provokes your opponent to adopt.

Cheers,
  Steve



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