Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:23:47 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Denial of service attack from "imagelock.com" Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990523131810.04669d30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990522181624.B93974@001101.zer0.org> References: <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost> <4.2.0.37.19990522105949.0465d4a0@localhost>
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At 06:16 PM 5/22/99 -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: >imagelock.com has been banned from my web servers ever since they >initiated a DoS attack against me a few months ago. Basically, they >download every accessible file on a website. The company's MO is to >check all images, etc. on a site in order to determine where on teh >web "copyrighted information" is being stored, so people can be >prosecuted for misusing copyrighted images. In short, they scan Person A's Web site for images that are also on Person B's Web site, and if they find a match, they say, "Let's you and him fight. Oh, and by the way, you ought to be paying me for finding this horrible copyright violation." This is one step below an amulance-chasing lawyer, IMHO, because they first STIMULATE the conflict and then try to profiteer on it. >Not only does their hard-hitting web client suck, Indeed it does. I found a log that shows that imagelock.com accounted for *25%* of the traffic on delta.net's Web servers last October. And delta.net is a *big* ISP! (I hear they recently merged with Concentric, so now they're bigger still.) >their business model >is disgusting. I hate everything about these people; I hope their >skulls accidentally get crushed by a steamroller. I don't know whether or not this would help. But complaining to their ISP probably would. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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