Subj : Re: What if?
To   : comp.os.linux, alt.spam
From : Sweet Anise
Date : Sun Jul 11 2004 11:28 pm

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:09:13 GMT, Minderbinder <milo_and_minderbinder@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you give them page hits, you give them MORE incentive to continue
> spammming. You might even help them to secure new advertising deals
> and raise their advertising revenue.

  Whenever you have a URL like http://something.com/index.php?id=bdm
the request will instead go to http://something.com/index.php?id=spammer
etc.  URLs like http://fddskgkl.something.com/ are changed to
http://spammer.something.com/

  No creditable hits are "given."  Bandwidth is used.  Log files are 
filled up.  Web hosts might get annoyed... maybe enough.  That'd be goal.

> If enough people did as you suggest, you might get lucky and render their
> server unavailable by swamping it (a distributed denial-of-service attack
> caused by excessive page requests, also known as the "slashdot effect").
> If you're doing a DDoS attack, why bother retrieving the page and wasting
> your bandwith? 

  Actually, the point would be to waste *their* bandwidth.
Mine isn't metered.  Theirs presumably is.

> All you need to do is initiate enough (empty) connections
> to tie up the server (SYN flood). This would require fewer attacking hosts
> to be effective.

  I'll explore that.  Thanks... but what will it cost them?
The point is to make spamming cost instead of pay.
Bandwidth costs.  I don't know that a SYN flood would 
cost anything would it?

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