Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>:
In message <20161030044342.GA18488@thyrsus.com>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>:
Two kids with a modest amount of knowledge and a lot of time on their hands can do it from their mom's basement.
I in turn have to call BS on this. If it were really that easy, we'd be inundated by Mirais -- we'd have several attacks a *day*.
You need to get out more.
http://www.nab.org/cybersecurity/Verisign-report-ddos-trends-Q22016.pdf
It *is* happening every day. You just don't hear about it on CNN because a "little" 80Mbps DDoS isn't even worthy of a headline anymore, even though such an attack could CRUSH a local bank, and even many regional banks into utter oblivion.
Now, where did I put those bitcoins... It's ransom time!
Don't change the subject. An effective DDoS against any single site is, though concerning, not a Mirai-class event. The difference matters, and you shouldn't be pretending it does to score rhetorical points. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>