[Air-l] Denial of Service attack against al Jazeera

[Karim R. Lakhani]

DNS attacks are not NEW.  It is surprising that the Al-Jazeera ISP and 
web admins did not anticipate this kind of a response.  Especially given 
the barrage of denunciations they have received in the US media and by 
US politicians.  There are *known* ways to overcome DNS.  They should 
have been smarter about it.

K

Guillaume Latzko-Toth wrote:
> 
> Thank you Frank for this follow-up. I hope that some investigation will 
> be done just like when the website of eBay and co. were attacked. I 
> would not be surprised to learn that this DoS was the fact of an 
> individual "hacker" motivated by sheer hatred. Paradoxically, the 
> difficulty of controlling the Internet is like a double-edged weapon: it 
> can make happen the blooming of blogs, but in a context of high-scale 
> misinformation/desinformation and manipulation of public opinion, it can 
> also generate self-justice behaviors, the "cyber-Rambo" syndrome.
> 
> Guillaume
> 
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