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Originally posted by Cassie@Jul 1 2003, 12:22 PM
continuing to taunt this person in the typical gfy fashion is only going to piss him off more and make it easier for those with a gripe against gfy to pursue whatever they want to do further cause they now know it can be done.
im not saying its right and i do believe these people or person should be punished fully. however, this person gave a warning yesterday...it should have been taken seriously.
just my 2 cents.......
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I wouldn't have contacted him either..... He threatens something, not much crime in that.... If you want to nail his ass, you have to let him do his best to do what he can....
You get to see what he has, you collect all the information you can get....
Then it's pay back time....
I firmly believe that you don't negotiate with extortionists....
And yeah, I saw the Necro shit... That was the posters on gfy's fault... If you are gonna go after someone for real, you don't go over and post on their boards that "we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do that and you better stop this shit..etc..." You report it and sit back and watch the isps and the proper authorities do their stuff... In the end, the ones taken down are not sure who took them down, who reported etc... That way there is no one to come back on....
After the Necro stuff, one of the threads on Necros board got picked up here in fact:
http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index.php?a...51e646020f1a5e7
and one of the Necro posters posted here: "im not here to cause trouble in fact im here to say im glad GFY isn't the prime example of adult webmasters. the man who started this thread sounds very intelligent when he uses that wigger word let me tell you. haha they'll do anything to try and cripple and do stupid shit to our site"
In other words, the Necrobatics team was taking (in their minds) revenge directly against some wrongs done to them on gfy....
The proper reply to deepsy's posts was to not reply at all... Research should have been being done (and probably was). The threat should have been taken seriously (and probably was). But all you can really do in some of these cases is sit back and wait and see what happens... The threat was not clear... It did not state what sort of attack was planned, It turned out that it was a simple dos attack... Not much you can do about that until it starts and you can get a signature so that you can block it at the gateway... If it is a sophisticated dos attack you might have to do some sophisticated blocking... But, during it, you can gain a whole lot of invaluable information that allows you to nail the responsible party....
But to negotiate with the extortionist only leaves you open to more extortion later..... So, the guy managed to take down gfy and adult com for a while... That will cost Lens some money but in the long run, Lens and company have gained a lot of valuable information about thier network security and about their attacker and it would be my bet that their attacker will be toast, if not yet, then in the near future........
just imho of course