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mircea_popescu: BitHub i acrtually had some outfit in chicago to do me a short
mircea_popescu: leson learned : when someone throws a quarter tb of crap at you
mircea_popescu: hey, people wanna show off their muscle, let them show it off to people who care.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla not really, you can actually trace to source with
http proxies.
mircea_popescu: someone taking down all tor nodes is a coupla degrees of magnitude over that.
mircea_popescu: what i had here was enough to make 10-100 Gb attacks ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: well look, ddos mitigation is an exercise in moving upstream.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mpex would be on tor, proxies would be on normal web.
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner shush you, you're not the one with the suspended exchange.
mircea_popescu: this is a small scale garden variety tor implementation.
mircea_popescu: but i dislike this sort of solutions, just hop around dcs ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well anything on the internet is limited by the internet actually existing.
mircea_popescu: in between these extremes a number of intermediate solutions.
mircea_popescu: lol so our friendly ddosers actually wiped the upstream provider.
mircea_popescu: it was funny, cause when he went the other ddos was recent
mircea_popescu: jurov only because couldn't figure out how to make any :D
mircea_popescu: i imagine it must be bruising egos but other than that... heh. who cares.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it is kinda funny, shrem gets owned, site is offline for three days, customers miss rally, popescu is ddosed nothing happens.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller possibly that they draw from the same reservoir of future as the price does.
mircea_popescu: jcpham remember the polish exchange that mtgox acquired in 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: jurov it's gotten to that point hasn't it. funny how things topple in btc.
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner so i made a spurious comment on the interwebs.
mircea_popescu: i can't even write about this shit, it'd be doing it favours ;/
mircea_popescu: every halfwit with a "liberal arts" degree in nothing specifically from Nowhere University is going to, on the mid term, publish a finite nonzero number of papers
mircea_popescu: one of them being that youthful cocks with milkstrings still atached will end up publishing on wanna-be "respectable" venues a la seeking alpha as if they were people.
mircea_popescu: because myspace profiles will compete each other into irrelevance
mircea_popescu: jcpham ok, some idiot who came up with the brilliant idea that because the cost of making websites is small, the internet will never exist