This Mac is no cheese - Denial of Service attacks foiled again

[thorfourwinds]

Greetings:

Apparently the currently-being-discussed black ops mind control mission theoretically launched against TLM/PRC et al couldn't make it past our well-prepared mental shields, so 'someone' took another shot at our hardware - another effective way of quashing communication if successful.


First TWIT, now this... not that we are the least bit paranoid...


As usual we were hunting those wascally wrabbits and had been cruising along this morning about four hours when we got bumped off the Internet (direct DSL connection).

No problem, merely relaunch Safari.


Not quite that easy.


System Diagnostics showed "No Internet connection" - and we had touched/changed nothing.

So we went around to the back of the systems wall and found this:






Those Apple techs have a sense of humor.

Finally, after having to hard reboot and reset the modem, we logged in to see this:







Ho-hum, probably nothing, Zorgon tweaking the system, however, the past few day's questions and subtle warnings swirled murkily about in our head much like a fine Minestrone, so we'll check it out.







What ?



That be

1 million,
460 thousand,
275.9 TB

not-so-casually directed our way...


Game on!


So exactly how much is that?


Terabyte:

A Terabyte is approximately one trillion bytes, or 1,000 Gigabytes.

We have a two terabyte drive off-line for secure backup.

To put it in some perspective, a Terabyte could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte images or maybe about 300 hours of good quality video.

A Terabyte could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ten Terabytes could hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress.

That's a lot of data.


A common PC would have gone up in flames -
Amy, is that what happened to you this morning?










It appears that we are still relatively safe, operating in Full Stealth mode.





http://config.privoxy.org/







Everything appears to normal at this exact moment in


Looks around for clif to appear and say,


"I told you so a year ago,
but you wouldn't listen
and refused to understand the significance."


Now, what in the world did he mean by that?   






What, we worry?





Peace Love Light
tfw

Liberty & Equality or Revolution

[ArMaP]

I don't get it, you talk about "1 million, 460 thousand, 275.9 TB not-so-casually directed our way..." but the image talks about "disk space". 

Is that a 1.3 exabyte disk, or is that data received? 

If it's data received, what time it took to reach that value? During one year that would mean a constant 34 Gigabytes per second. 

[baddmove]

Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...

[ArMaP]

Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...

He probably has a Mac, so he doesn't need an amp. 

[thorfourwinds]

I don't get it, you talk about "1 million, 460 thousand, 275.9 TB not-so-casually directed our way..." but the image talks about "disk space". 

Is that a 1.3 exabyte disk, or is that data received? 

If it's data received, what time it took to reach that value? During one year that would mean a constant 34 Gigabytes per second. 

Greetings:

Thank you for your time, consideration and participation.

or is that data received?

Data directed our direction in less than 24 hours and shunted to a bottomless server for analysis. 

This is not some kid with a laptop.

@ baddmove: Mac here - no amp needed - the Ben Franklin Effect provides the power (eat your heart out, Mikado)

We have NEVER experienced anything like this, and welcome all comments.

Thank you for your time, consideration and participation.

thw

[zorgon]

Wouldn't that guy from Mad magazine need an amp for his electric guitar to work?  just wondering...

Why would you need an amp if your plugged in to the Cosmic Resonator?
just asking

[zorgon]

Okay this is the program/site I was looking for I was sure I posted it here but can't find the thread

But ummm  you should have redacted your IP address from that image 

No good being in stealth mode if your advertizing where you are 

[thorfourwinds]

Thanks.

If you carefully check that IP that was posted, you will find that it is not our 'true' IP.

That's a cheesebox   

We hope...

[zorgon]

Okay wasn't sure so I zapped it anyway

[thorfourwinds]

Okay wasn't sure so I zapped it anyway

We noticed that.

Thank you. 

This is what a day without 'interference' usually looks like:

[ArMaP]

Data directed our direction in less than 24 hours and shunted to a bottomless server for analysis. 

That means an incoming capacity of 17 Terabytes per second. 

[burntheships]

Thank you for the heads up...
Duly noted.

[thorfourwinds]

This is probably the Sarge's black-ops friends at work...

kicked off line and look at what happened today:

4,292,608.0 TB DOS attack



And then this whilst visiting overseas:




This recently behind a 29 TB attack:







At least we have 'interesting' activity documented.

tfw

[zorgon]

i don't follow here.... no one else is reporting any such attacks and the server reports all clear. The logs don't show anywhere near even 1 terabyte traffic at any time

Your clip below



Shows the 27 issues are in your junk files... so I am having trouble seeing at what your getting at?  Perhaps they have hacked you personally?

[zorgon]

That means an incoming capacity of 17 Terabytes per second. 

Is that a lot?