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John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app

Subject: John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app
From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Roland Dobbins)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:34:06 +0700
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On 13 Dec 2015, at 0:23, Jim Shankland wrote:

> Am I missing something, or is an even distribution of originating IP 
> addresses virtually impossible *without* using spoofing?

If his remarks were reported correctly, they are incorrect.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>

References:
- John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app
  - From: jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)
- John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app
  - From: dcorbe at hammerfiber.com (Daniel Corbe)
- John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app
  - From: nanog at shankland.org (Jim Shankland)

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