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Re: handling ddos attacks


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:36:59 -0400

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:19:46 -0000, Richard Cox <richard () mandarin com>  said:
While there are obvious difficulties with Russian (and neighbouring
country) ISPs, for the rest of Europe any such misconduct gets fast
action - as witness the speed with which Law Enforcement moved over
the Sasser worm - the author of which is already in custody.

*alledged* author.

I mention this mostly because there's been at one case where they've arrested
somebody for creating a minor tweaked variant, and gotten the press pointed at
that rather than the fact that they never did (to my knowledge) find the guy
who did the bulk of the work....

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