From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 20 May 2007 22:46:11 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>This sort of attack is so simple to mitigate that I'm surprised anyone even
>bothers with it anymore. All you need is a credit card and an ftp program.
>Go rent a dozen or 2 dozen websites scattered around on different hosts,
>then do round robin dns. Would take me a couple hundred dollars in charges
>and less than 5 hours to get any static website back up.

   There is always national pride - they would like to keep hosting $$$
within the country to maximize the positive impact on the economy.   For
small countries experiencing broad based attacks, most lines going into and
out of the country would be saturated.

   In some cases, national pride is so extreme that they host their own
root certificate authorities - not linked to the default CA certificates
shipped with Windows.    Instead of paying hundreds of  thousands of $$$ to
Microsoft and Verisign, they create a new local economy.   Local root CAs
certificates are pre-installed in nationalized versions of computers sold
in that country.

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