Monthly Archives: June 2008

Internode now has a SourceForge Mirror

Finally some great news, my ISP of choice (Internode) has opened a SourceForge mirror. I almost fell off my chair when I seen it, after many users begging them for one on Whirlpool they have given use one. Apparently there is about 5 terabytes of information hosted by Internode in the SourceForge mirror, bringing Internode‘s total unmetered content to about 32 terabytes.

Internode Sourceforge mirror Live
Internode opens Sourceforge mirror
Internode embraces open source with SourceForge mirror

The Crime that MediaDefender Committed

Over the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, a Denial of Service (DoS) attack was conducted against Revision3. After some investigation they have discovered that the vast majority of the SYN packets being flooded towards them were sourcing from Airistdirect, specifically it’s child company MediaDefender.

You can find details on the Revision3 Blog, specifically the post titled “Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3“.

So what makes MediaDefender think it can get away with committing a crime, specifically one that can be considered a terrorist attack?