I'll preface this by saying that it is all too easy to criticize from the outside and without all of the relevant information and history.
Once I got to the point in the article where it was obvious that he was under some form of a coordinated attack I almost wanted to send myself back in time to be able to go over to his office and yell "AWS! AWS!" in his ear.
In addition to that, it seems it should have been obvious that bringing a team of experts to help secure the network (or transition it away) and fight the fight would have been the smartest idea. I would think that the quoted losses of some $58K per month would have covered this just fine. And, perhaps what is more important, it is likely that the technology fight wouldn't have lasted three years.
The other thing that struck me --again, don't have perfect data, don't know all the facts-- is the apparent lack of help from the likes of the FBI. You would think that they'd be there in some sustained fashion to help out.
This fellow was out of his league and paid a dear price for it. Hopefully the settlement compensated for some of it. It sounds like he might have ended-up with stress related health issues which are no laughing matter.
It'll be really sad if the Internet becomes just another weapon of war. That should not be permitted. How? Not sure. Is it too late?
>It'll be really sad if the Internet becomes just another weapon of war.
Anything of value can be turned into a weapon of war. Think about what a weapon is - it is a tool to disrupt something delicate. A missile destroys a plane. A knife stops a heart. A virus stops a computer.
It really concerns me that a private US citizen was personally attacked by a sovereign nation. It seems to me that the US has an important duty to protect it's people, whether the attack is virtual or physical.
Once I got to the point in the article where it was obvious that he was under some form of a coordinated attack I almost wanted to send myself back in time to be able to go over to his office and yell "AWS! AWS!" in his ear.
In addition to that, it seems it should have been obvious that bringing a team of experts to help secure the network (or transition it away) and fight the fight would have been the smartest idea. I would think that the quoted losses of some $58K per month would have covered this just fine. And, perhaps what is more important, it is likely that the technology fight wouldn't have lasted three years.
The other thing that struck me --again, don't have perfect data, don't know all the facts-- is the apparent lack of help from the likes of the FBI. You would think that they'd be there in some sustained fashion to help out.
This fellow was out of his league and paid a dear price for it. Hopefully the settlement compensated for some of it. It sounds like he might have ended-up with stress related health issues which are no laughing matter.
It'll be really sad if the Internet becomes just another weapon of war. That should not be permitted. How? Not sure. Is it too late?