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Comment Re:Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen (Score 2) 448

"In the real universe, the phone service rep is a minimum-wage worker in a foreign country, whose top priority is keeping down their time-per-call-resolution metric"
And I would call that problematic by design. Mr Hiroshima didn't chose this for Paypal's business model, and Paypal is ultimately responsible for this.
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Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179

msm1267 writes with an excerpt From Threat Post: "While the big traffic numbers and the spat between Spamhaus and illicit webhost Cyberbunker are grabbing big headlines, the underlying and percolating issue at play here has to do with the open DNS resolvers being used to DDoS the spam-fighters from Switzerland. Open resolvers do not authenticate a packet-sender's IP address before a DNS reply is sent back. Therefore, an attacker that is able to spoof a victim's IP address can have a DNS request bombard the victim with a 100-to-1 ratio of traffic coming back to them versus what was requested. DNS amplification attacks such as these have been used lately by hacktivists, extortionists and blacklisted webhosts to great success." Running an open DNS resolver isn't itself always a problem, but it looks like people are enabling neither source address verification nor rate limiting.

Comment Re:Kudos (Score 1) 1061

"They have made MILLIONS off of suing people that attack them for their repugnant views." I've heard this statement made frequently, can you provide a source to a list of these cases including any damaged that they have collected?

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