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Three Letter Agencies don't have to DDOS. They just send in the heavies. It's cheaper.
by JonnieCache 16y ago
Three Letter Agencies don't have to DDOS. They just send in the heavies. It's cheaper.
- pyre 16y agoCheaper than just hiring out a botnet?
- JonnieCache 16y agoCan you imagine how many meetings it would take for the US security agencies to go about hiring a botnet? Whereas they have a pretty much unlimited supply of heavies on retainer.
- coderdude 16y agoWhat the heck is a "heavy?"
- piefke3000 16y agoNot your brother.
- civilian 16y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heavies http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=heavies It's a general term for a grunt. In this context think: Black SUV, black suit, silenced pistol, shades.
- iamdave 16y agoHe's a tall, muscular, bald Russian guy who likes guns, sandwiches and has an unhealthy bond with his family physician...I think.
- varjag 16y agoRussians in general are not that fond of sandwiches!
- wipt 16y agoI thought all men loved sandwiches... "Make me a sandwich!"
- xenophanes 16y agosudo shut up
- wipt 16y agoThanks. I love not only your appreciation of humour, but also your loving demeanor.
- jessevondoom 16y agoSo...Karnov? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnov
- mostly_harmless 16y agoI figured it was a Team Fortress reference. Considering both of the 'agencies' that control the teams are denoted by three letters (BLU, and RED).
- pavel_lishin 16y agoHe is credit to team.
- lukeschlather 16y agoEspecially given the DDOS against Wikileaks, I'm pretty sure they also have at least one botnet on retainer. And there have been voices high up in the government saying that the US needs to develop offensive cyberwarfare capability. If that's not a call to develop state-owned botnets... the people in charge don't understand technology. Of course, the use of the term cyberwarfare might be a giveaway anyway. In any case, I'm sure it's a pretty simple matter for some people in the CIA to quietly hire out a botnet.
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- stcredzero 16y agoWhy can't they just send out a heavy who knows someone who knows someone with a botnet?
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThere are so many legal difficulties with DDoS, you can almost guarantee that neither a bank nor a government agency is likely to do it, regardless of paranoid delusions. As for the government, they generally have more effective means so long as their target's servers aren't located in the ass-end of nowhere.
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- mikecane 16y agoI doubt that. Contractors. Pick up the phone, and they say, Do it.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoYou've been watching too many movies. In reality most spy and law enforcement agencies are huge, bureaucratic messes that can barely get anything done, even if national security is clearly at stake.