[LINK] First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks

[Roger Clarke]

At 11:18 +1100 10/12/10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>I heard an interview with an Anon member this morning who said their
>are something like 11million members. good luck with that!

It looks like the software may be DOS rather than DDOS, i.e. each 
participant bombards the target with packets that contain their own, 
easily-traceable IP-address.

If so, then the arms race will proceed quickly, with the couple of 
hundred stayers among the (million?!) members arming themselves with 
cyberwarfare-grade software that at least spoofs the IP-address but 
more likely harnesses existing botnets or establishes new ones in 
order to mount the attacks.

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