Apple’s Denial of Service Attack
Early today Apple unleached the biggest DOS attack the internet has ever seen. They cunningly positioned a program update to the itunes that makes it seekout unsuspecting podcast websites and batters them with file request until something breaks, ie the operating system.
The beautiful thing about it was that the podcasting community knew about it in advance, but not the specifics. ie. which sites and when the program was getting released.
Some would call it a brilliant software innovation, but I call it a virus…
And in other news: Our podcast is getting royal downloaded and Hava.nl is happily holding up… suckers!
July 1st, 2005 at 5:15 pm
Apple launches denial of service attack
One of our clients at hava.nl has a podcast site. He also made a very good point at his weblog recently which i totally agree on.
Early today (jun 30th) Apple unleached the biggest DOS attack the internet has ever seen. They cunningly positioned a …
July 1st, 2005 at 9:19 pm
Funny thing, I am being stupid but it sorta true at the same time.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:10 am
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