DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Mon Nov 18 13:30:46 EST 2013


On 11/18/2013 12:39 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
> Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org> writes:
>> What is the "open source action" that she refers to and can be found
>> in the description of the segment?  Is the meaning of "open source"
>> being changed by some groups?
> She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence community, "open
> source" means "we didn't have Mata Hari anything, we found it from
> websites, books, newspapers", etc. Open sources.
>
> So she could be trying to say: "We know from open sources that at least
> one group is trying to DoS us" meaning something like "There is a group
> out there with the stated, public mission to try to DoS us" or "A recent
> newspaper investigation found a hacking group that blah blah blah" etc.
>

Yeah, that's my take.  Though it wouldn't surprise me if there was 
(D)DoS software that's GPL-licensed.


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