[Noisebridge-discuss] DDoS defense testing?

[Kate McKinley]

You can start a DDoS from Amazon if you really don't like your Amazon account.

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Kate McKinley
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 16:32,  <travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:14:52PM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
>> Moin Moin,
>>
>> Other than renting out an illegitimate botnet, can anyone suggest some
>> ways to test how well an infrastructure is able to defend against
>> specific DDoS attacks?  Commonly it is discovered that some device in
>> path of the target is unable to process certain payloads or heavy
>> traffic, rather than the target itself.  If anyone has suggestions, it
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I think that you could rent many servers on an Amazon cloud for a
> short period of time, all running the same image.
>
> Another way would be to log onto irc.2600.net's #2600 and antagonize
> the people who appear to be frustrated, short-tempered, and more savvy
> than average.  :-)
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