[Foss-cafe] big storm in the cybersphere?

[dep]

greets, folks!

anybody know if this is a previously announced zombie trigger day? 
reason i ask is that my internet service went down this morning amid 
the kind of overload i haven't seen since code red. and i'm hearing 
here and there of dns problems.

just wondering if this is fairly local or if we're getting ever closer 
to the big one. because one of these days, thanks to our friends in 
redmond, the internet is going to go down.

(which does make what's generally perceived to be the *big* hammer, a 
virus or worm that nukes people's hard drives, or at least the hard 
drives of people running windows, seem like a public service by 
comparison. i mean, i can practically guarantee you that virtually all 
of the traffic i'm seeing on this branch of the system is zombie ddos 
stuff from windows boxen.)
-- 
dep

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