Revision3: “Although I can only guess, here’s what I think really happened. Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes – quite without our approval. When we closed off their backdoor access, MediaDefender’s servers freaked out, and went into attack mode – much like how a petulant toddler will throw an epic tantrum if you take away an ill-gotten Oreo.
That tantrum threw upwards of 8,000 SYN packets a second at our servers. And that was enough to bring down both our public facing site, our RSS server, and even our internal corporate email – basically the entire Revision3 business. Smashing the cookie jar, as it were, so that no one else could have any Oreos either. “
We have all this pointless security theater going on these days that does nothing more than harass and inconvenience honest citizens, but we allow and encourage a bunch of thugs to operate this sort of business. Because they claim to be acting in the interest of Big Old Media they’re allowed to commit crimes that otherwise would, and have been prosecuted as terrorism. Meanwhile, a legitimate business is materially damaged for having the temerity to field a business model different from that approved of by the thrones and powers of media publishing.
How fucked up is that?
