Re: John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:23:47AM -0800, Jim Shankland wrote:

Also, this jumped out at me:

"The problem with the recent attack is that the originating IP addresses were evenly distributed within the IPV4 universe," McAfee says. "This is virtually impossible using spoofing."

Am I missing something, or is an even distribution of originating IP addresses virtually impossible *without* using spoofing?

I think it's quite doable using botnets. I routinely log attacks/abuse that are clearly coordinated, yet originate from very diverse sources. ---rsk