seanp2k

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   by seanp2k 15y ago

   Yeah, I forgot about IDS in my reply further up. Web Application Firewalls or Intrusion Detection Systems might have saved this, or they might have just slowed the attackers down. Also, re: blacklisting DDoS...hahaha, against a real botnet
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   by seanp2k 15y ago

   Webhosting sysadmin here, we start off with a strict ruleset for mod_security and then add exceptions as needed....they really stick out in the per-vhost error log, so it takes all of about 5 minutes to fix. We err on the side of caution,
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   by seanp2k 15y ago

   >"If News Corp thinks that there's profit to be made in a Wikileaks style operation" I believe that this totally misses the point of whistle-blowing / disclosure. The mere fact that they're doing it for-profit is, at least to me, a pre