Recently the number of attacks on my machines has increased. Unfortunately I'm not even to blame (things would be easier..) The most recent set of attacks prompted our ISP to request that we change IP blocks to help their network routing team better deal with them. Perhaps the most annoying part of the attacks is that the attackers end up taking down sites that have nothing to do with their target. I'd like to know what they think about taking down a family's e-mail server, the San Diego Women's Chorus site or affecting the lives of over a thousand other customers, not including people trying to use the sites.

I think the problem goes back to the same thing that you see on TV these days with everyone thinking that if they feel they are "wronged" that retaliation is the only answer. It's like the students who try to shoot their teachers for not giving them the grade they think they deserve. It's like the parents at a kid's soccer game taking a punch at the ref or even worse - a kid. Everyone thinks that they're entitled to something and when they don't get it, they decide that violence (or in this case a DDOS attack) is the answer.

What ever happened to walking away? How about not using the service if you don't like how it's run? What about sending in a well phrased e-mail explaining the situation to someone in charge?

Instead of dealing with things responsibly, people these days seem to think retaliation is the only answer. We can only hope that the world changes it's way of thinking before things get too much worse.