On 09/15/2016 03:49 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:25:56PM +0300, Cari Machet wrote:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html
lol, Russia and China. Did he miss the Norks?
Also where the resources and bandwidth come from, there is no mention of it, especially botnets. Long ago someone claimed BGP amplification from a single ISP can get large ddos factor, don't know if this scales exponentially.
Protonmail never got really specific about who took them down a while back but they did say it was at first an effort by 'criminal elements' which they staunched, followed by an onslaught from a national actor in collusion with that criminal element. It was very effective. They never got very specific about the method used except to describe it as dDos. Rr