[liberationtech] On Burma DDoS attack

[Hal Roberts]

It's been privately reported to me that a large majority of the sites 
under attack appear to be private government sites.  A thing to keep in 
mind is that it's individual sites being attacked, not the network as a 
whole (at least the sites are being targeted -- the intent may well be 
to take down the network).  I think the core question is if it is 
government sites being attacked, why doesn't the government just null 
route them?  It'd be painful, but much less so than the whole country 
being offline, unless the government sees a benefit in being in the role 
of a victim.

Of course, it could be the government attacking itself for some reason 
as well, though that seems like a lot of work when they could instead 
just flip a switch to take themselves off the network.

-hal

On 11/4/10 11:03 AM, Enrique Piraces wrote:
> Has anybody come across evidence that can support the claim of a
> politically motivated attack?
>
> Best,
> Enrique
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