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[PullerRommel]

I was thinking today about an article i read around 5 months ago. It was about a DDoS attack on Estonia. The Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attack effectively locked Estonia out of the rest of the world through the internet.

A short description of a DDoS attack. DDoS is when a host of "zombie" computers (Computers that have been taken over by hackers, farmers, etc) continually keep going into websites based out of the country and flood the bandwidth causing it to shut down.

In Estonia millions of zombies attacked its sites most think it blamed Russia because they had recently removed a WWII memorial statue to Soviet Soldiers.

Now i was wondering what effect would say a country like China that could effectively hire hundreds maybe thousands of "farmers" and launch a DDoS attack on the US. What repurcussions would this have? What could possibly happen to military? economy?

 

[weasel1962]

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[merocaine]

The threat is overblown, sure you can launch DDOS attacks but there hardly fatal, shit I can't check my newspapers website, the Gas companies site is down ect... there nucence attacks for the most part. Its when bot herders use there bots to mine personal information through spam emails that you really have a problem. But again if you can find the root DNS server the bot herder is using to control the herd, then you can take the whole system down.
Its military applications are limited as far as I can see. Its a way for criminals to data mine more than anything else.
The Estonia thing was more a bunch of patroitic russian bot herders deciding on a little payback.