On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:37:45PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, Roland Dobbins wrote:
But this kind of thing punishes the victim. It's far better to do everything possible to *protect* the target(s) of an attack, and only use D/RTBH as a last resort.
I'm sure it's not always the case, but in my experience as a SP, the victim virtually always did something to instigate the attack
Like have the temerity to have a successful online store. Or be featured in the mainstream media for providing information during a natural disaster. The bastards. I've dealt with far more DDoS attacks that were for the purposes of extortion or lulz than were due to the recipient "instigating the attack". Perhaps that's a function of not attempting to cater to the lowest common denominator. - Matt