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Well, these mails are almost an exact copy of the ones the real armada collective sent out last year though? It would make sense to be wary of them if you hear
by NegatioN 10y ago
Well, these mails are almost an exact copy of the ones the real armada collective sent out last year though? It would make sense to be wary of them if you heard about attacks carried out by them.
The question is, what should a small enterprise without protection against ddos do? Of course it's wiser to actually implement said protection, but it's a lot easier for the human mind to jump to the short-term and easy solution.
- gist 10y agoWell now if you were going to pull a scheme like that for real (and not just spray and pray 10,000 sites hoping a few would pay) wouldn't it makes sense to give the site at least a taste of what you can do for a short period of time? And do you honestly think that it's good business practice when receiving an email like that to just assume it's truthful and you need to swing into some kind of fire drill? I don't.
- NegatioN 10y agoNo, I never said I thought it was good business practice. But I'm saying it's not good business practice to ignore it. If you can afford to ignore it, then there's no issue, but there's plenty of sites that don't have protection against this, and have money on the line if they get taken down. The cost of paying off (a semi-probable) attack, might be better than going down the next day, and having to firefight it. I'm playing the devil's advocate here. I would not pay x thousand dollars because of an email from said group, but I can understand it slightly better than sending money for nigerian scams.