Comments | jrittenhouse: Warm and Fuzzies:

jrittenhouse

Warm and Fuzzies:

Jul 08, 2009 22:19

The Federal Protective Service, tasked to provide security to US government office buildings (like the one that Susan and I work out of in downtown Chicago) is in trouble; the Government Accountability Office ran teams through and past the security at several such buildings, bringing in bomb materials.

Numerous US government web sites were downed ( Read more... )

terrorism, tech, government, daoffice, malware, police, web, security

Comments 1

docstrange July 9 2009, 03:31:10 UTC

Note the DDoS is turning out to be a pretty wimpy one - total bandwidth around what a typical university has. 50,000 sounds scary big until you realize that the bandwidth involved is the real issue and that modern website load balancers, query compression techniques, cache engines, etc. make bandwidth about the only thing that matters. 20-30Mbps DDoS is SOOOOO 2001.