An ounce of DoS attacks is worth a pound of frustration.

[tongodeon]

So I've been hanging out at Philz this afternoon, working on my new spam filtering setup, but ssh access to my server is REALLY slow. I fire up ntop and after a few seconds it shows me that a guy with a Macintosh is using a lot of traffic on high ports. After a few more seconds his machine announces that its name is "Christopher Redacted's Computer", and that he's using a lot of traffic on BitTorrent ports. I attach my DWL-122 start up kismac and start broadcasting deauthentication packets specific to his MAC address. A few seconds later a blond guy in the corner starts scowling. I stop the deauthentication flood and walked over to him.

"Hey, is your name Christopher?"
"Yeah."
"Christopher Redacted?"
"Yeah."
"Are you running BitTorrent on Phil's network here?"
"Yeah."
"Would you mind not doing that? You're killing the network."
"Um, sure, no problem."
"Thanks a bunch."

And suddenly the network's all better.