Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-20 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: cf. these fine articles: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=222 http://slashdot.org/story/05/11/21/1140210/open-source-media-vs-open-source-media-inc I didn't follow the links, and then 'lo and behold, WBUR radio

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the term open source get Embraced And Extended and turned into a pejorative the way hacker was... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-19 Thread Bill Ricker
MOD I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the term open source get Embraced And Extended and turned into a pejorative the way hacker was... the Intelligence community has had sources longer than the computation community has, and they distinguish open vs covert/secret. The

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-19 Thread mark
There's a malware kit in the wild specifically to ddos the healthcare.govwebsite: http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed -- mark On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: MOD I'm sure some would not be

DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Tyson Sawyer
What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open source being changed by some groups? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMOzxdniwM Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread David Rysdam
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open source being changed by some groups? She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence community, open source means we didn't have

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Tyson Sawyer
Thanks! ...I was hoping it was something like that. Ty On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 11/18/2013 12:39 PM, David Rysdam wrote: Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open source being changed by some groups? She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Bill Ricker
David is correct, open sources has been a concept in the intel community in contrast to covert sources, classified sources for longer than we've had computers. It originally meant reading the foreign newspapers. Among its magical properties of openly-sourced intel is that we don't have to hide

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 01:30:46PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: Though it wouldn't surprise me if there was (D)DoS software that's GPL-licensed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/ Fun! -b -- the strength of the arbitrary decision is that it can be absolute.

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: David is correct, open sources has been a concept in the intel community ...but open sources means something very different to me than (an) open source action. I can see how I interpret it from a different context. --

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

2013-11-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open source being changed by some groups? She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence