Lining the DDoS cloud with silver.

[vakkotaur]

According to this story some folks want to get others to run programs to repeatedly re-load various Republican web sites in hopes of chewing up bandwidth and making the sites useless for their intended purpose.

It strikes me that the best response to this may be, as soon as it is detected, to load up the page(s) with pay-by-view advertising (if there still is any) and turn the folks trying to bring things down into a revenue source. It might not be much, but the "I was raising money for the Republicans?! Arrrrghhh!!" reaction would be worth far more than the money.

Comments

BWA-ha-ha-ha-ha!

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

That would be truly excellent. I'd also recommend running a script that records the last N visits from each IP address, and notifies the appropriate people if they occur in sufficiently rapid succession.