Wow! It's been way too many months since I've written anything here. My bad. I'd make lame excuses about being busy and traveling and such, but such is life.
Recent news: I actually got invited to be on the local news in Denver for a short live interview on the twitter outage. It was fun! I actually had people write to me to say they saw me on TV. How cool is that?
And the subject: why should people care about DDoS attacks against twitter. And in 3 short minutes on the air, I explained that twitter isn't just a social networking site, that it is becoming a legitimate communications medium -- witness the reports about demonstrations in Iran that came from facebook and twitter. When you pick up the phone, you expect a dial tone. What if it isn't there? When you tweet, you expect it to work.... and what if it isn't there? Besides, it's not just twitter.... DDoS can be directed against anyone's servers. It's not common, but it is nasty. So don't just look at someone else's misfortune, look at what would happen to your business if your DNS were to get DDoS'ed. And don't wait for it to happen, it's too late by then. Do something about it now.
It's too bad security isn't an issue until after you're attacked......
Next.... what really happened at twitter? What got attacked? There are some conflicting reports out there.
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