Dyn acquired by Oracle?
I've been wanting to move my secondary DNS off them for a while. Recommendations anyone?
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Listening to DEF CON soundtracks today, including what must be the only song ever written about ssh...
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Listening to DEF CON soundtracks today, including what must be the only song ever written about ssh...
Listening to DEF CON soundtracks today, including ...
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Today's must read - "The Scientists who Make Apps Addictive" from 1843 Magazine
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Today's must read - "The Scientists who Make Apps Addictive" from 1843 Magazine
When your industry calls the most profitable users "Whales" you know there's a problem. I keep a copy of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion[1] around just to inoculate myself from these black arts.
Today's must read - "The Scientists who Make Apps Addictive" from 1843 Magazine
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When your industry calls the most profitable users "Whales" you know there's a problem. I keep a copy of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion around just to inoculate myself from these black arts.
Did someone say DNS DDoS Attack? Remembering PharmaMaster vs Blue Security, 2006
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Did someone say DNS DDoS Attack? Remembering PharmaMaster vs Blue Security, 2006
Yeah, I was there... Back in May of 2006 Typepad, LiveJournal and TuCows got taken down by a massive (at the time) DDoS. I recall it was 2-4 GBps of reflective DNS traffic. Scott Berinato covered it pretty well in the Wired article Attack of the Bots[1].
For the record we were able to get back up using Akamai DNS Hosting, MCI/UUNet DDoS mitigations, and a cleverly placed GRE tunnel. Oh and a bunch of great Ops work from Lisa Phillips , Matt Peterson, Peter Wohlers and others. I think I still have the commemorative t-shirt we did with TuCows.
And here we are 10 years later. Same stuff, yet in many ways worse.
It's high time we get to fixing the underlying protocols and infrastructure to make these types of attacks a thing of the past. It's time to Redecentralize[2].
Did someone say DNS DDoS Attack? Remembering PharmaMaster vs Blue Security, 2006
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Yeah, I was there... Back in May of 2006 Typepad, LiveJournal and TuCows got taken down by a massive (at the time) DDoS. I recall it was 2-4 GBps of reflective DNS traffic. Scott Berinato covered it pretty well in the Wired article Attack of the Bots.
For the record we were able to get back up using Akamai DNS Hosting, MCI/UUNet DDoS mitigations, and a cleverly placed GRE tunnel. Oh and a bunch of great Ops work from Lisa Phillips, Matt Peterson, Peter Wohlers and others. I think I still have the commemorative t-shirt we did with TuCows.
And here we are 10 years later. Same stuff, yet in many ways worse.
It's high time we get to fixing the underlying protocols and infrastructure to make these types of attacks a thing of the past. It's time to Redecentralize.
[Fancy graph from: Netcraft, Blue Security Shuts Down, Citing DDoS Attacks]
Tech Industry: upgrade thyself -- How do we reform tech? by Anil Dash
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Tech Industry: upgrade thyself -- How do we reform tech? by Anil Dash
The industrial scale of todays technology causes tech to become alienated from the very users they are supposed to serve. (Never mind that we should be talking about People, not "Users").