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Originally Posted by carrion1928
A DDOS is clearly not what's happening here and is a TOTALLY different situation.
No one is holding anything hostage. A common phrase in the networking world is there's no security without physical security. In other words, if you can access a box, you can't lock someone out of it. A company hosting as many large sites as RCN has physical access to the machine, either personally, or through their data center. You can reset the root password of a box in 5 minutes if you can actually get to it. So unless you're implying that their data centers are literally being held hostage, IE: with guns, then your just fear mongering.
Also, anger and revenge are plenty of motive. In fact, their some of the best motives and pretty damn common. It's definitely possible (even likely) that the hacker is a current or ex employee, though.
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If they could just boot into a shell and reset the root password for all the boxes in only 5 minutes then we'd be out of this already, wouldn't we?
I would be very surprised to see if this wasn't about money, somewhere along the line of motives.
Also, just to clarify, I wasn't implying that this was due to a ddos, just that the same effect would be achieved, a controllable lapse of service that somebody could use as leverage.
Anyway, sure would be good to get a proper update with some details to put some worries to rest.