BJ Gillette: Todd Underwood, Chief Operations and Security Officer for Renesys, has now officially weighed-in on Blue Frog’s disaster, from the viewpoint of a man who can see the entire global network from 30,000 feet. To the tangle of wires, cables, routers and switches pulsing beneath his feet, this man is God.

He dismisses Blue Security (BS) explanations of “Internet tampering” and “Blackhole Filtering” as such literal non-sense “that it’s not even wrong yet.”

Instead, Underwood says the incident was nothing more than an old-fashioned denial of service attack known as a SYN flood. He believes that once the attack reached the point where it annoyed BS’s provider, Netvision blocked BS traffic to protect both its infrastructure and the virtual server that hosts BS.

Underwood also believes that this entire media storm is the result of BS trying to deflect attention from the damage that BS techs caused at Six Apart when they redirected the BS site(s) (and the attack on BS) to Typepad.

Meanwhile, over at TQM3, David Hart has been busy deconstructing BS claims about both its methods and outcomes. In the end, Hart says the whole scheme only makes sense if the “primary objective is to launch an IPO. Filtering spam is quite secondary to that endeavor.”

As Underwood says, “It would be much better if they could just claim ignorance of the DOS, apologize and move on.”

Instead, BS keeps talking, so newshounds keep digging. BS is playing a very dangerous game.

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