On 10/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
This user is obviously a nut-job, but this is something we should atleast consider. I remember a while back when a vandalbot started attacking ANI, which effectively shut it down for a long period of time. This was before semi-protection, so today that specific threat could be easily dealt with, but what if he had attacked random articles instead?
It's a fact that there are botnet-operators out there with tens of thousands of computers, and they demand money from websites in exchange for them not being DDoSed. This is not even rare, it's fairly common in this brand new world.
Top-ten websites tend not to be DDoSed with any level of success. As a general rule, if your website can survive a Slashdotting, it can survive anything a botnet operator can throw at it.