August 20th, 2007
Does causing a bajillion machines to reboot constitute a DDoS attack?
The reason behind Skype’s downtime this week looks somewhat like this image of a malicious DDoS attack, no?
Attacker: Microsoft
Handlers: Windows Upgrade Servers
Zombies: Windows users!
Victim: Skype
Just sayin’.
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August 15th, 2007
I just unsubscribed from a pushy seed company’s daily email newsletter.
Really? 72 business hours? There are 8 business hours a day, 40 in a week (good thing they aren’t French). That could take up to 9 business days, which is a minimum of 11 calendar days.
Could be as many as 13, if you [...]
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