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I have read, and re-read the below mail a few times, and I don't see any
answers to Mr. Sundelof's points or any details of the reported DDoS attack.
Can anyone point to actual webserver logfiles or network traffic statistics,
method of DDoS
Totally agree, Zack!
It's a tough world out there -- for Advocacy as it is for any other venture.
Keeping the keel and rudder pointed correctly so the advocacy ship
doesn't run aground is not an easy gig. Especially in such a fickle
world where you can't afford to have anyone misjudge your
Thank you, Yvette.
That statement still does not explain why the donation is needed (since their
system could stand the attack).
Marcin
Yvette Alberdingkthijm yve...@witness.org skrev:
Hi all,
Ricken Patel, who heads up Avaaz, asked me to post this on this list (as I
brought the
I am just the messenger here…:) Will suggest that they should join, if someone
has not already.
Thanks,
YAT
Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm
Executive Director
WITNESS
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
phone: + 1(718) 783 2271
europe: +31 619031122
mobile: + 1 (347) 210 0152
skype: yvette-a or
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Sent from a mobile device. Apologies for typos or brevity.
On 2012-05-05, at 4:52 PM, Marcin de Kaminski mar...@dekaminski.se wrote:
Thank you, Yvette.
That statement still does not explain why the donation is needed (since
their system could stand the attack).
Marcin
Yvette
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On Thu, 03 May 2012 06:41:01 -0400
Andrew Lewis and...@pdqvpn.com wrote:
Wtf..?
So, they're undergoing a massiva attack for the last 36hours. And then,
they just build a bigger and heavier page, pushing a press release
anywhere they can, asking for
] On Behalf Of Andrew Lewis
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 6:11 AM
To: Okhin
Cc: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?
I asked for more info via twitter and got pointed to this:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/online-activism-site-avaaz-hit
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While it is a small detail its important - DDoS attacks are mounted in a
different way to a DoS attack. From the vague wording on the Avaaz site it
sounds like a DDoS attack, but since there is no evidence it is not possible to
make
The wording
...@gmail.com
To: Andrew Couts andrew_co...@yahoo.com
Cc: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2012 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?
Hello Andrew. Your article asserts that this attack is happening as fact, yet
you say
...globally-distributed botnet of thousands of computers...
Someone could rent thousands of botnet agents for two days for a couple
hundred dollars:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/study-finds-the-average-price-for-renting-a-botnet/6528
Avaaz does not have any further information about who is
Was clarifying Okhin's musing about what their goal of 35k$ was for. Their
goal is 35,000 *donations*. Likely to the tune of... who knows. $500,000?
If we're wondering what they'd do with 35k$, an even more interesting
brainstorm is what they'll do with 500k$. Hard to know without knowing
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