{"id":7146,"date":"2004-01-22T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T16:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2013-06-29T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T15:39:27","slug":"distributed-denial-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2004\/01\/22\/distributed-denial-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Denial of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was more than just the virus. Seems several computers were compromised and turned into file sharing hosts. In retaliation for cleaning up that mess, a Distributed Denial of Service attack hit early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Along the same idea, the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=569&amp;ncid=738&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/nm\/20040121\/tc_nm\/tech_voting_security_dc\" target=\"_new\">Pentagon wants online voting<\/a>. This surprises me because the technology is not to the point to make it entirely safe.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Preserved comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"ctext-101870737\">\n<p>eee, sounds scary.\u00c2\u00a0 i have no idea what all that means, so i would be in big trouble if it happened to me!<\/p>\n<p>xo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Posted 1\/22\/2004 10:16 AM by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/melally.xanga.com\/\">melally<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"ctext-101871334\">\n<p>A DDoS is where a bunch of computers are made to send invalid network packets at a target. The target can&#8217;t do anything with them so it discards them after a timeout period. That timeout period is longer than it would take to just complete them. So many of these invalid packets are sent it cripples the target.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Posted 1\/22\/2004 10:20 AM by <a href=\"http:\/\/sneezypb.xanga.com\/\">sneezypb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"ctext-101954998\">Doesn&#8217;t surprise me that the Pentegon would want to hurry up online voting.\u00c2\u00a0 How else to control the outcome of elections???\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, you voted for canidate b&#8230;.right&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>Posted 1\/22\/2004 4:03 PM by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oenone.xanga.com\/\">OEnone<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was more than just the virus. Seems several computers were compromised and turned into file sharing hosts. In retaliation for cleaning up that mess, a Distributed Denial of Service attack hit early in the morning. Along the same idea, the\u00c2\u00a0Pentagon wants online voting. This surprises me because the technology is not to the point to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1198,2021,1208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-from-xanga","category-web-services"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1Rg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}