colin dellow's bln

As part of my work to produce a graphical interface to SNORT alerts, I needed a way to generate traffic using the User Datagram Protocol or UDP as it's more commonly known.

So my Google query might look like: "generate udp traffic"

I want to do this from the DOS command line.

So maybe "generate udp traffic from dos".

But I'm really lazy and I know that most search engines ignore common words like "from".

So maybe "generate udp traffic dos".

So I Google for that.

Then I realize that if you capitalize things a little bit, you get "generate UDP traffic DoS". Add an article and you get "generate a UDP traffic DoS" where DoS stands for denial of service attack, a big no-no where you get a bunch of machines to crapflood one server in the hopes of keeping it so busy dealing with your traffic that it cannot service other requests.

And now you'll know why Dan has disappeared if the NSA comes knocking on our door tomorrow.