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Governments would no be likely to use tactics like DoS attacks. If they were attacking wikileaks, the most likely methods would be using political pressure to
by smallblacksun 16y ago
Governments would no be likely to use tactics like DoS attacks. If they were attacking wikileaks, the most likely methods would be using political pressure to get the hosting revoked. If they wanted (or needed) to use technical solutions, they would probably either attempt more direct attacks, or attack the dns and routing systems.
- gasull 16y agoThe Chinese Government has been using hackers/crackers against Google and many other organizations. I don't see why the Chinese Government --or any other Government pissed off at the present moment-- wouldn't do the same with WikiLeaks.
- eli 16y agoSure, they might... but the point is that a DoS attack is pretty naive and ineffective way to attack the site.
- DanI-S 16y agoGovernment handling of technology is often naive and ineffective...
- trotsky 16y agoYou really believe the intelligence directorates of various top nation states are walking around jabbing glass ttys with sticks and saying "durrr"? Stuxnet, Titan Rain, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Keyhole? It doesn't take a genius to know DDOS'ing isn't going to accomplish anything of significance, basically you just have to be paying a fraction of attention.