I might have my tinfoil hat on here but without any doubt we need to make away with all the centralization because that's what is the problem, really.
Aggressive push towards distributed services - think bittorrent/sync and bitcoin/blockchain technology as the solution to distributed network attacks.
Challenge accepted?
Maybe the future is much more evenly distributed and we all make a living by offering energy and computing power to those services? Why did PGP never take off? I would love to set up my own "miner" for it to play its part in a truly decentralized and secure Email service. Open source as the "business model" is key in that scenario.
I don't have enough energy nor am I smart enough to actually create those kinds of services but I do feel stuff like that is the way out of this mess.
Interesting articles on topic:
"Enter The Blockchain: How Bitcoin Can Turn The Cloud Inside Out"
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/22/enter-the-blockchain-how-bi...
"Can Namecoin Obsolete ICANN (and More)?"
Uninstall Skype, get a new IP, and it'll probably never happen to them again.
I don't see why more of them don't make token skype accounts regularly. It isn't much of a hassle and it raises the security bar quite a lot compared to always using the same account.
Are there any documented instances of this happening to smaller startups? And, relatedly, are a set of best practices emerging to deal with this sort of a thing?
It's a really bad feeling. Our miners really have no reason to stay with us. For a majority of them, as long as the servers are up there's no difference between pools. If our servers go down, even through no fault of our own we stand to lose a bunch of our members, and who knows if they'll come back.
As for solutions, we implemented a few new iptables rules, and we ended moving from DO to another VPS provider who has DDOS mitigation. There really isn't much you can do.
What whiny emails did they send?
