Some people wanna watch the world burn.<br /><br />7:16 AM, August 14, 2016, Steve Kinney &lt;admin@pilobilus.net&gt;:<br /><blockquote><br /><br />Oh fuck. Time to advance the Digital Doomsday Clock. How many days<br />past midnight was it yesterday?<br /><br />https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot16/workshop-program/presentation/w<br />ustrow<br /><br />or<br /><br />https://tinyurl.com/ddoscoin<br /><br />"In this paper, we present DDoSCoin, which is a cryptocurrency with a<br />malicious proof-of-work. DDoSCoin allows miners to prove that they<br />have contributed to a distributed denial of service attack against<br />specific target servers. This proof involves making a large number of<br />TLS connections to a target server, and using cryptographic responses<br />to prove that a large number of connections has been made. Like<br />proof-of-work puzzles, these proofs are inexpensive to verify, and can<br />be made arbitrarily difficult to solve."<br /><br />CliffNotes version:<br /><br />http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/12/ddoscoin_cryptocurrency/<br /><br />:o)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br />Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)<br /><br />iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXr+veAAoJEECU6c5Xzmuqa/QH/0woHuLRvAlsOHp/ecjHUFy/<br />msvAplK6H1ivNIJhYqqBf9DRumuw1g8N4B4N57+R/IclP26O+Rx/qLzlOtRHCB30<br />3jGrP+pfuCkHoN+7My9MjKArIzpj6C7jurHnK4ip+Nb5D0/mZZn509YcS5+p1EzA<br />F3iv+iHtFUotzQnGMR8ndW6Owwnjg2fqHBzBlIQzKlAgPLOWzL5CWqnsvPiK4WEZ<br />qVmB6mB6uWSqPGZfw/+W1MshH6nQK4BWX5drFIy8VrjTnjl2RWr4fBymlSu5ikAN<br />TUUwJ3/wqXRj6WGfWcJrfFV7/wfio/Mr2HoWV6sSuzJ2FQzNBx0/Si489S++6vM=<br />=zk5J<br />-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</blockquote><br /><br /></blockquote><br /><br />-- <br />You’re not from the Castle, you’re not from the village, you are nothing. Unfortunately, though, you are something, a stranger.