[IP] Re: three million dollar botnet attack in Japan

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Joel Snyder [Joel.Snyder@Opus1.COM]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:45 PM
To: David Farber; hasan.diwan@gmail.com; rdv@sfc.wide.ad.jp
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   three million dollar botnet attack in Japan

The numbers in the article were right.

The original article was titled:
"Botnet cyber-attack costs company 300 million yen"

and the person who forwarded it translated that into 3 million dollars,
which, while not perfectly accurate, is off by only 4% (1 dollar is 104
yen today).

jms


David Farber wrote:
> yup
> ________________________________________
> From: Hasan Diwan [hasan.diwan@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:59 PM
> To: David Farber
> Subject: Re: [IP] three million dollar botnet attack in Japan
>
> 2008/6/1 David Farber <dave@farber.net>:
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Rod Van Meter [rdv@sfc.wide.ad.jp]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:57 AM
>> To: David Farber
>> Subject: three million dollar botnet attack in Japan
>> (I haven't looked at the exact numbers on a recent map, but I doubt
>> there's 50Gbps between China and Japan -- and there's *definitely* not
>> so much bandwidth between the two that 50Gbps of DOS attacks would go
>> unnoticed.  The numbers in the article are probably off.)
>
> As is the subject of the article... 300 million dollars is not the
> same as 300 million yen, unless the dollar has weakened pretty
> significantly.
> --
> Cheers,
> Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan@gmail.com>
>
>
>
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