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My guess, and its just a guess, is it was a trial run
If you went to all the trouble to build a huge net, to be the proverbial haystack hiding the needle you would need to test it prior to conducting a real attack. You would go after the best in the business to see if it had an impact. You would expose only a portion of the net to avoid tipping off the real targets. Ans you would cease the attack prior to it being understood and defeated.

But, that's just me, if I was going to do a devious thing like tahe, which I wouldn't.

But methinks some big cyber attacks are in the works .... those terroristas are actually some pretty smart dudes!

They know what and when they are going to do it, we need to figure it out by correlating logs and traffic after the fact accross machines which are in multiple administrative domains. The building of the attack is much easier than the defeating of it!
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dns proxy would help  V Sanders | 06/16/04
surfing habits  us_forums@... | 05/27/07
Zombie hunters  Anton Philidor | 06/16/04
pleople have tried that...  ryusen | 06/16/04
Not the right people  Anton Philidor | 06/17/04
for me, a large part is trust...  ryusen | 06/18/04
MS already did that ... old news!  oldskool | 06/16/04
Question: DNS file on pc  Anton Philidor | 06/17/04
it was a tounge in cheek response to automated "scanner"  oldskool | 06/17/04
Doesn't sound right  Nigel Johnstone | 06/16/04
Did notice some heavy Spam Activity  voska | 06/16/04
New OS ?  pj-xmesh | 06/16/04
RE tail  pj-xmesh | 06/16/04
So where are the usual...  Rick_K | 06/16/04
..you're here.  seosamh_z | 06/16/04
It's true though  Rick_K | 06/16/04
Not true at all  ShadeTree | 06/17/04
but was it really a a DoS?  ryusen | 06/16/04
sounds like they are saying the network was so large  oldskool | 06/16/04
sounds logical, but...  ryusen | 06/16/04
Very well could be  Rick_K | 06/16/04
My guess, and its just a guess, is it was a trial run  oldskool | 06/16/04
Were all just sitting back.....  ShadeTree | 06/17/04
windows apologists  us_forums@... | 05/27/07
Ok I dont care how many zombies somebody used.  computer_man | 06/16/04
Actuallt they run Linux..  ShadeTree | 06/17/04
I'm not slinging mud ... just stating the obvious attack vector  oldskool | 06/17/04
Not be harsh but: WRONG!!!  Da-Man | 06/17/04
Maybe they got bit by their own bot?  quietLee | 06/17/04
And now a moment of silence for the suckers running MS products  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/17/04
I supposed Solaris is flawed too  toadlife | 06/17/04
One of the better White Hat teams says Linux attacked w/i 15 minutes  oldskool | 06/17/04
get over yourself (NT)  ryusen | 06/18/04
Zombie Attack (if that is what it was)  Tedscribe@... | 06/18/04
No sell, sounds like a load of bull  FilledOut | 06/18/04
Dont understand this  ParadigmOdyssey | 06/18/04
road not the cars  us_forums@... | 05/27/07
Keyloggers and virus  mare_z | 07/01/04
Protect the internet! Run Emule and BitTorrent! Hog BW from the SpamZombies  GreatInca | 02/24/05

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