It's interesting, this just came up on gizmodo. As I said in another forum, take it for what it's worth: http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie Cheers, Harry On 03/28/2013 09:23 AM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
So we all have heard the breathless news reports of how the recent urinating contest between Spamhaus and a butthurt ISP was the "biggest in history".
Where would you guys put it, if measured as "percent of total worldwide available Internet bandwidth/resources"? My gut feeling is that by that metric, it didn't even make the top 20. Think back to the Morris worm, or Blaster/Nachi/etc - *nobody* had any free bandwidth when those happened. And even if you restrict the discussion to intentional targeted attacks, I'm sure we've had worse (Smurf, anybody? :)