eBay and the DoS thread
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly shame eBay, who decided to fire one of their engineers for disclosing their "proprietary" methods for defending against DoS in the recent NANOG thread. The only appropriate punishment for a company with its head so far up its proverbial poop chute to prevent the sharing of simple recommendations on DoS prevention with the networking community is that all useful, intelligent, and responsable people consider their policies carefully before working there. </rant> -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:14:19PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly shame eBay, who decided to fire one of their engineers for disclosing their "proprietary" methods for defending against DoS in the recent NANOG thread.
The only appropriate punishment for a company with its head so far up its proverbial poop chute to prevent the sharing of simple recommendations on DoS prevention with the networking community is that all useful, intelligent, and responsable people consider their policies carefully before working there.
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Not to claim it did, or didn't, happen, but at least one source claims that all of eBay's engineers in that group were working as of COB on Thursday. Is anyone willing to name names, for the skeptics who prefer not to trust everything they read? (No, my source isn't any more reliable than your source; I'm just noting that healthy realism points out that FUD is a great way to hurt a company, and would like some substantiation before being upset at eBay, as opposed to generally disliking any company that woudl do such a thing). -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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