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As a comment on the Krebs article suggests, some see him as an enemy due to his work.
by taxcoder 5y ago
As a comment on the Krebs article suggests, some see him as an enemy due to his work.
- aasasd 5y agoStill not seeing what a DoS attack on him achieves. What, he loses some kind of sweet profits due to the site being down for a day, if Google can't shield it for some reason? And the other two obviously aren't going to keel over unless you come up with like five of such botnets. They're pretty much the largest possible targets who are still gonna report that they felt something. Which sounds precisely like advertisement to me.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI would naively expect a security researcher to take a bit of a reputation hit if an attack actually managed to take his site down.
- ketzo 5y agoAnd a reputation boost for the hackers that managed to pull it off.
- aasasd 5y agoI wouldn't expect that at all, since the attack doesn't have any security implications other than ‘someone found how to send a lot of requests from routers’, and the target is just one guy with a blog—not a corporation whose job is to serve web requests.
- aasasd 5y agoBy the way, that's some circular reasoning right there. I asked, what would be the purpose of the DoS attack. You say, it's to hurt the reputation if the site comes down. But why? What is the purpose of taking down the site? Krebs is a security researcher, he's not in the business of running websites, let alone sites that can withstand two million requests a second. The only security connotation of this is that some guys got a botnet and they flex on Krebs to have him advertise the fact—pretty much like he's supposed to, per his job description.
- noAnswer 5y agoIf nothing else, it is a "show of force".
- sneak 5y agoNot just his work. Krebs regularly engages in self-righteous, unethical behavior against his perceived opponents, including doxxing people who have left bad reviews on his books. It makes me a little sad each time I see people promoting his site.