Jason Levine on how a DDoS on Blue Security brought down Livejournal. Blue Security allegedly espouse flooding spammers with unsubscribe anti-spam-spam; Spammers attacked their site two days ago; in response, they apparently switched their main address to point to a typepad site. Levine: he best analogy I can think of is that it’d be like you dealing with a water main break in your basement by hooking a big hose up to the leaking joint and redirecting the water into your neighbor’s basement instead.
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