Re: the expensive way to do DDoS ?

From: K. Graham (zukeeat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 11:26:11 PST

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install sub7 trojan on those computers and there is no physical cost to
the teenage hacker.  he can have as many as are up, online, and have a
flaw in their internet security.  this is not a thought it is reality. 



On Mon, 21 Feb 100, Darren Reed wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 100 01:08:13 +1100 (EST)
> From: Darren Reed <darrenrat_private>
> To: firewall-wizardsat_private
> Subject: the expensive way to do DDoS ?
> 
> If you had money to burn, how many el-cheapo pc's would you need to install
> at POP's around the world such that you had a virtual army out there that
> was yours and from which you could send forged packets whenever you like?
> (just how many ISPs are going to bother checking, eh?)  All you have to do
> is muddy the path of who the ISP thinks owns those boxes and yourself in the
> event that someone works out which boxes the packets are actually coming
> from...would 1000 be enough ?  (Are there even that many POPs ? :)  Maybe
> too expensive for a teenage hacker, but not the mafia, CIA, etc.
> 
>

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