I could attribute a fair number of misdeeds to that book. ;) On 5/22/14, 10:22 AM, "manning" <[email protected]> wrote:
>negotiation is fine… a weakness is presuming to know what the perp wants > (and many times they don;t know themselves) >so engagement is good “The Cuckoo's Egg” is worth the read… > >/bill > > >On 22May2014Thursday, at 8:23, Livingood, Jason ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5/22/14, 12:51 AM, "Beleaguered Admin" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> This has been going on for a long time -- almost every detail is >>> exactly the same as what is described here: >>> >>>http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/meetup-suffering-significant-ddos-attac >>>k- >>> taking-it-offline-for-days/ >>> >>> He is in regular communication (via whois info and other collected >>> contact data) asking for <$1000 USD sums to stop the attacks. >> >> That article said that the company didn¹t want to negotiate with >> criminals. As an aside I spent some time with a retired hostage >>negotiator >> on Tuesday (which was fascinating BTW). He actually said negotiation is >> always useful and sometimes paying a ransom demand can serve as a method >> to track where the money goes, to identify all the actors involved for >> later action (which may apply in this case). And sometimes financial >> demands are dropped as a result of negotiation. >> >>> Is it worth talking to law enforcement? Some of these have been >500k >>> costs to the customer, but we assume the person doing it isn't in any >>> western country, so maybe it doesn't even matter? >> >> You may find the law enforcement more interested in engaging within you >> than you might think. >> >> Jason >> >
