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Luckybit

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Quote from: Chet on April 18, 2013, 02:31:26 AM

Attack wars, further jamming stuff up, seem counter productive.

DDOS wars are counter productive but counter attacks are productive if you know who and what to attack. Who says you gotta attack with DDOS? You could attack with the authorities kicking their doors in.

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Quote from: flix on April 18, 2013, 02:24:15 AM

Almost every major Bitcoin website has been under DDOS attack over the past few days. It’s becoming a real problem, not just for the exchanges. It is also opening up other vulnerabilities.

Installing defensive tech (like cloudflare) is not enough. Isn’t the Bitcoin community supposed to include some of the best hackers in the world? We should set up a bounty and take the fight to whatever botnets are trying to mess with Bitcoin.

As long as attackers can get away with it for free, attacks will continue. Let's just readjust their incentives a bit Wink

I suggest setting up:

0. Reward for proving that there is a real attacker
1. Reward for whoever can identify the source of the attacks
2. Bounty for taking down (with prejudice) any major attackers

Considering the potential losses for major Bitcoin businesses if these attacks continue, I’m sure pledging a few coins each for this would be worthwhile. It might also be a good project for the Bitcoin Foundation...

Sure but they would have to release logs and other information to the general public first.

flix

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Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on April 18, 2013, 02:51:05 AM

Quote from: mufa23 on April 18, 2013, 02:30:55 AM

Would be nice if some of the admins of the websites would come forth with info on where they are getting DDOS'd from. I understand that in certain circumstances that it's hard to trace the origin, but if they learn anything, I would gladly counter DDOS those servers, or help in other ways. As I am sure many other Bitcoin users would.

One does not simply get the source of Distributed DoS attack.

Botnets have owners who control them. Sure, it won't be easy. I couldn't do it. But somebody among the almost 100.000 bitcointalk members must be a security forensics expert, right?

If the reward is high enough... we might even get an insider tip from someone who knows the attackers... Even technically unassailable systems are socially vulnerable.

Come-from-Beyond

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Quote from: mufa23 on April 18, 2013, 02:30:55 AM

Would be nice if some of the admins of the websites would come forth with info on where they are getting DDOS'd from. I understand that in certain circumstances that it's hard to trace the origin, but if they learn anything, I would gladly counter DDOS those servers, or help in other ways. As I am sure many other Bitcoin users would.

One does not simply get the source of Distributed DoS attack.

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more or less

mufa23

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I'd fight Gandhi.

Quote from: Chet on April 18, 2013, 02:31:26 AM

Attack wars, further jamming stuff up, seem counter productive.

I see we have drawn out the DDoSer... Gentlemen, prepare the ion cannons!

Remember remember the 5th of November

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Reverse engineer from time to time

Quote from: Chet on April 18, 2013, 02:31:26 AM

Attack wars, further jamming stuff up, seem counter productive.

It's perfect.

Chet

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Attack wars, further jamming stuff up, seem counter productive.

mufa23

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I'd fight Gandhi.

Would be nice if some of the admins of the websites would come forth with info on where they are getting DDOS'd from. I understand that in certain circumstances that it's hard to trace the origin, but if they learn anything, I would gladly counter DDOS those servers, or help in other ways. As I am sure many other Bitcoin users would.

flix

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Almost every major Bitcoin website has been under DDOS attack over the past few days. It’s becoming a real problem, not just for the exchanges. It is also opening up other vulnerabilities.

Installing defensive tech (like cloudflare) is not enough. Isn’t the Bitcoin community supposed to include some of the best hackers in the world? We should set up a bounty and take the fight to whatever botnets are trying to mess with Bitcoin.

As long as attackers can get away with it for free, attacks will continue. Let's just readjust their incentives a bit Wink

I suggest setting up:

0. Reward for proving that there is a real attacker
1. Reward for whoever can identify the source of the attacks
2. Bounty for taking down (with prejudice) any major attackers

Considering the potential losses for major Bitcoin businesses if these attacks continue, I’m sure pledging a few coins each for this would be worthwhile. It might also be a good project for the Bitcoin Foundation...

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