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Samuel Tarling wrote: > You raise many good points, but I'd like to add that those who are > arrested are individuals, not the complete groups they (may!) of > belonged to. > Anyway, http://blog.twitter.com/ says that they are almost all OK, > just a bit worse for wear. I really wish the people (person) behind > this would announce it, just to see where the "credit" goes. > This person(s) must really hate social networking.... :/ > > >> Add in 46,000,000 twitter users hitting reload because it didn't load.... >> >>> Thats why it took so long, the users of twitter were DDoSing the server by >>> accident! :P >>> > It makes you think about the (in)security of web servers and such. Is > there any real protection from DDoSs other than unplugging your server > (or computer for that matter)? > > Hope this isn't another of those BBC things...where they took a botnet > and stole people's information before telling them that they'd be > infected. > > Sam. > (Yeah, I user brackets ( ( ) ) too much) > > One of the ironies of MS pc crippling policies (http://www.angryziber.com/w/FAQ:_Crippled_Windows) may be that these things are a bit harder for the Bots to do - thought they probably have enuf sense to upload the patches... I am wondering whether DDOS on twitter might actually be a social service thing Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html