There's also the "Bored Teenager" possibility. Some people just want to watch the world burn. For all we know, this is the work of some kid with lots of free time, fucking around for no benefit and without any real motivation.

That's a relatively new phenomenon and probably took many hours of re-training to achieve.

Dyn comes in on the other side of the equation. You use your ISP DNS server (or Google's 8.8.8.8, etc.) to look up addresses. But the people running the servers have to publish those addresses somewhere in the first place, and to do so, some of them use a service like Dyn.

To use a simplified phone analogy, Dyn publishes a phone book and your DNS server is 411. If you call 411 and the operator can't find the right phone book, they can't give you the number you want.

Which has, incidentally, given it a reputation of being 99.9% spam, just like .biz. I visited abc.xyz the day Google announced its reorg, and that remains the only legitimate domain I've ever seen in that TLD. I have postfix rejecting anything with a .xyz "From" header, and it looks like I'm about to add .shop to the list.

IMO the only thing these new TLDs are accomplishing is fracturing the namespace into ever more useless niches that will never be widely accepted or compatible. Oh well, it's their money, if they want to waste it.

I bet they're itching to get some of these drones deployed next time. I've had The Weather Channel streaming as background noise for the past couple of days, and the reporters have been frequently mentioning that Verizon service is down, calling out Verizon specifically instead of just saying "cell service is down." Outages are to be completely expected during this type of event, but it's still not great advertising for vzw.

So would you call that a joe job or a Steve Job?

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." Jack Valenti, MPAA, 1982.

Hollywood keeps dropping bombs at the movie theater.

Why don't you go ask William Binney, Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe, and Ed Loomis how using the "legitimate channels" works out.

Amazon is in the business of selling products that don't leave a bad taste in the mouths of Amazon customers. They have a vested interest in removing shitty products from their site, as the shitty products reflect poorly upon the Amazon brand. Honest and objective reviews, insulated from retribution by the seller, are a good thing.

Dice sold Slashdot in January. There does seem to be quite a pro-Trump agenda here lately, but that isn't Dice's fault (anymore).

Some of the traditional attacks (DNS/NTP reflection and amplification) would be mitigated but it's not likely to help with these IoT DDoSes. When you can control 300,000 pwned devices, you don't need to spoof any traffic.

FYI, VISA offers merchants a service called VISA Account Updater where if your credit card number changes, VISA will happily sell your new number to any merchant who had your old one. Just great, huh? It used to be if you were dealing with a hostile merchant who refused to stop billing you (think AOL for example), your "nuclear option" was to have your card number changed. Now even that won't work if you use a VISA card, because VISA themselves will sell you out.

Rotating every minute is probably too fast for this purpose. Consider your average consumer poking around online, it might take them more than a minute just to type in their card information, then they see that "Continue Shopping" button and realize they want to add something else to their cart. Next thing you know, 10 or 15 minutes have elapsed between the time they entered their card info and the time they click "Checkout." The card issuers are loath to introduce any frustration into the purchase process. An hour window seems like a good compromise.

Please, dear God, no.