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This is NOT the fault of the attackers. The continued efficacy of DDoS attacks is squarely the fault of ISPs who absolutely refuse to police compromised custome
by vox_mollis 11y ago
This is NOT the fault of the attackers. The continued efficacy of DDoS attacks is squarely the fault of ISPs who absolutely refuse to police compromised customers or filter egress.
This is a problem that has a solution, but the people in the best position to handle it have shown no interest in doing so for a decade.
- mike_hearn 11y agoUm, yes it is the fault of the attackers. Attackers aren't animals or clouds. They are agents that have free will and are choosing to try and destroy Linode, probably as part of some sort of ransom attempt. ISPs can't be expected to solve this problem: the ones that have tried discover that it takes huge efforts to get a hacked customer cleaned up, and then they frequently just get re-infected. ISPs exist in a highly price-sensitive and competitive environment: providing dedicated, personalised security services to customers who don't even care or can't be blamed (e.g. hacked router) is incompatible with charging a competitive price. I don't know what the solution is. Just saying "no" next time someone wants to use crap programming languages and frameworks that systematically lead to exploits would be a good start. No more using C in embedded devices that can't be remotely upgraded.