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**Precturge** · 11-30-2009, 08:35 PM

Sure: the article sets up a nightmare situation where a coordinated attack takes out multiple systems at the same time. Then it starts talking about "lone gunman" "hacktivists".

See the logical disconnect there?

No, I see how critics don't know much about technology.

In the cyber-world, a "coordinated attack" can be launched by just one person or a government or a list of governments. It really doesn't matter. All that matters is that one has access to a sufficiently large botnet or set of hosts, and, ideally, one with substantial segments located across different peers and interconnects, such that cutting or blocking one segments still does not do much to slow down the tidal flood of packets.

In fact, such an attack is typically much more easily coordinated by one individual than by many.

11-30-2009, 08:35 PM	#11
Precturge Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 585 Senior Member	Sure: the article sets up a nightmare situation where a coordinated attack takes out multiple systems at the same time. Then it starts talking about "lone gunman" "hacktivists". See the logical disconnect there? No, I see how critics don't know much about technology. In the cyber-world, a "coordinated attack" can be launched by just one person or a government or a list of governments. It really doesn't matter. All that matters is that one has access to a sufficiently large botnet or set of hosts, and, ideally, one with substantial segments located across different peers and interconnects, such that cutting or blocking one segments still does not do much to slow down the tidal flood of packets. In fact, such an attack is typically much more easily coordinated by one individual than by many.
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