Netcraft: www.sco.com as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

“Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service
scenario, including our own, has been based on the premise that SCO
badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the
case: unlike Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real
need to keep its web site operational, SCO Executives may not
strongly care about the availability of www.sco.com. After all,
Michael Doyle’s half a billion dollar patent win against Microsoft
scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web site.

“In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control
of directing the most enormous volume of http traffic that the
Internet has yet seen to hostmaster@sco.com. On a whim, SCO can
direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by
changing an A record in named.conf in time for the change to
propagate by Sunday.

“In this context, SCO Executives may have latitude to consider
alternative defenses which do not involve having to parlay with
low-down-no-good-Linux-loving-CDN-providers…”

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