Internet IS a wild west. You should live with it. It will never be _quet, dead american's residential area, where dogs do not bark and kids do not play themself on streets in age of 8 (normal dogs bark, and normal kids often play themself when they are 8)_. It is the whole WORLD, not one country. So, we must live with it, and do not hope, that it will have numerous _speed tickets_ and _police officers_ (as 90% of the people live every day, making their own decisions and protecting themselves. It is, in fact, a very effectiv way to stop spammers. But it definitely became a dangerous DDOS service. So - learn how to live with it, it's the only choice. (Make sure, that no single protocol or botnet can kill the whole network or deplete all resources, for example). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org> To: "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:38 AM Subject: Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Gadi Evron:
http://news.google.com/news?q=black+frog
How do we make this folly stop?
Ignore it? It's an inactive Sourceforge project (with some Google forums attached), and news reports seem to be based on a Slashdot diary entry announcing it:
Ignoring is the high-road. How long are we going to cry about the Internet being a battle-ground, the wild west, or whatever else if we legitimize DDoS?
Sometimes being quiet is not going to win the war. There will be other Blue Frogs.
<http://slashdot.org/~Spy+der+Mann/journal/135727>
There are far more dangerous Sourceforge projects out there. 8-/