Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 13:42 UTC, submitted by george
Sun's Grid network was hit by a denial-of-service attack on its first day. "To let people try out the Sun Grid, the company made a text-to-speech translation service publicly accessible for, for example, turning blog entries into podcasts. 'It became the focus of a denial of service attack,' said Aisling MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of utility computing said in an interview." However, the attack was easily delt with: "Sun moved the service to be within the regular Sun Grid, which requires authorisation to use. The attacks didn't disturb the regular grid, Sun said.
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2005-10-09
"I agree somewhat by the way, but when offered the choice between anonimity for all with some idiots running around or no anonimity even for the responsable people I prefer the former. After all we don't put everyone in jail because some people are criminals either."
I concur. I, however, would prefer to find a third option.
Just a quick idea off the top of my head, and probably invalid on so many levels it's not even funny, but hopefully it can clarify what I mean.
Example: OSNews
Idea: Don't allow anonymous posting for members with sub 1 average comment scores. Obviously this isn't true anonymity as OSNews itself would still know who you are, but it would be pretty damn close. It's not like they don't know your IPs from the server-logs anyways.
The funny thing is, the more I think about it, the more I realize 99% of what I do, I have no need to be "anonymous" for. There are very few times when I do not want to be responsible for my own words/actions. In most cases, I'm actually quite proud of what I say/do, and WANT people to know I'm the one saying/doing it!
There are cases when this isn't true, for instance if I lived in a country where opression was common, I would not want to speak out against the government and be beheaded the next day. I'd prefer to remain anonymous.
The funny thing is, there are already methods in place for this kind of anonymity. If you really need it, you can find it. Tor is just one such example.
That being said, I'd rather most people be responsible for their actions/words in most cases. The perception of people in this country (USA) around the world would jump a bazillion percent if this occured. I'm tired of a very few (minority) being able to completely destroy the entire world's opinion of an entire nation's worth of people on the net. We're not nameless/faceless people in life, we shouldn't be on the internet.
At least in the "real world" (tm) intelligent people in other countries can blame the actual cause of their grief on the people responsible. Of course, some will generalize and say all of people X in country Y are bad, but in general they will blame those responsible.
(As a side note...)
I suppose in the USA you can blame the people for the vote, but I'd hesitate to do that until you understood just how terrible our voting system is (has become), and how we (the people) really don't have much of a choice/make much of a difference anymore. All of the running candidates suck. We have to vote for the lesser of two (sometimes three) evils. Whichever wins, they are still evil. Don't attack me, I'd like to see you get somebody in the running for presidency in america. Short of having a billion dollars, it's not going to happen. I guess we'll have to wait for another revolution.