Sun Grid DOS'd 119
feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
Kinda missleading (Score:4, Interesting)
I dunno, Slashdot could have reported on something more meaningful - like Sun GPL'ing their latest processor. You can download it here:
http://opensparc-t1.sunsource.net/download_hw.htm
There's a decent write-up here:
http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn032106-story01
Manufacturing fab not included...
Re:Jackasses (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:The summary forgot to mention the rest (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+t
Re:Jackasses (Score:4, Interesting)
They only proved that partial anonymity breeds irresponsibility. Sun and any sort of response they make would have a tough time being anonymous. So, on one hand you have the "bad guys" who have almost complete anonymity to cover their 'extra-legal' activities and on the other hand you have the "good guys" without much anonymity and so are unable to respond in kind.
Adding audit trails and authentication just changes the identities of the "bad guys" from those who are outside the system to those who own the system and thus can erase the audit trails as needed (for example, the brazilian the british coppers shot and killed in the tube last summer - despite being the most surveiled society on the planet the incident was not recorded on camera due to a 'temporary malfunction' -- yeah RIGHT).
Re:Jackasses (Score:3, Interesting)
Speaking of which if anyone is interested in doing this, you can use OS X's (so-so) voices:
$ say -f blogfile.txt -o podcast.aiff
Then use iTunes to convert to MP3 or AAC. `man say` for more options. Introduced in 10.3.
I'm not saying this is better than what Sun offered, or that those hackers weren't assholes... just mentioning something that people might be interested in.
Re:Jackasses (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/14222
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/toolkit/security/
http://www.gridtoday.com/03/0526/030526.html [gridtoday.com]
http://distributedcomputing.info/news.html [distribute...uting.info]
This thing has a lot of people's names on it. If it flops someone has to take the blame.