@kidavenger: They confirmed that it was a DDoS attack. I'm no computer expert, but from what I understand, it should be pretty easy to identify if it's a DDoS attack or just a lot of normal traffic.
Hackers sell our webcams as "slaves", use our pay pal accounts for slot machines, run murder-for-hire contract killing services, create their own currency called bit coins then farm unlimited amounts of it, and use that fake money to buy "under age paraphilia" pornography.
Hackers sell our webcams as "slaves", use our pay pal accounts for slot machines, run murder-for-hire contract killing services, create their own currency called bit coins then farm unlimited amounts of it, and use that fake money to buy "under age paraphilia" pornography.
@boocreepyfootdoctor: Murderers kill people so me breaking in to your house is nothing. I'm pretty sure you'd still call the cops if I stole your TV duder.
Anyway, if the DDoS was targeted at Extra Life that's mega-fucked. Some people are suggesting that the attack was on a data center that also happened to service Extra Life so it may be collateral damage which would be cold comfort I'm sure.
The way I see it if anything this is just going to make people more passionate about the cause which is a good thing.
There are so many DDOS protection solutions out there now, I kinda thought this type of thing was behind us. If Extra Life was really targeted with a DDOS...man, those are some scummy people.
@milkman: "No one DDOS's for fun" While I agree the whole thing could be a scam by Extra Life to get more people to give to them(not saying it is, but it very well could be) this guy is just an idiot if he thinks people don't do things like this for fun. Kotaku really is filled with dummies.
@sparky_buzzsaw: Eh, I was trying to at least give them a slight benefit of the doubt. That was mainly just saying that they didn't detonate a bomb, or not yet, anyway. Also, while I understand the majority of what happened, what exactly is DDoS? What does it stand for and everything?
@quarters: DDoS is short for Denial-of-service-attacks. It can be done in various ways (the Wikipedia article on DDoS is very good), but the short explaination is that, to quote the Wikpedia article, it's an "attack {that] involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, so much so that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered essentially unavailable."
@amyggen: Man, so it's like a forced, digital traffic jam? Ugh. I feel like that just has to be done entirely out of spite. Thanks for the explanation.
@quarters: Yeah, a forced digital traffic jam is a good way of putting it. It's incredibly popular among "hackers" because it's not very difficult to do, and it's effective. Most of the time you hear about a government site or similar being down because of "hackers", you can bet that it's because of a DDoS attack.
Sucks that their servers got hit again, but EL is almost up to $3m total now, so that's fantastic!
Freaking ridiculous. I CAN'T STAND hackers. Their utter glee at causing misery for everyone is just unfathomable. They're borderline psychotic.
Here's the thing all hackers aren't bad or malicious. Like anything it comes down to how that person uses that skill set. Hacking and reverse engineering can have beneficial uses.
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It's really depressing that people like "Bebop" think that the mob justice enacted by Anonymous/lulzsec/other-internet-communities-that-occasionally-do-DDoS-stuff must ALWAYS have legitimate reason behind it. Sometimes they're just assholes, don't assume they're fucking Batman. They're punks.
I sincerely hope that despite these attacks, this will be the most successful Extra Life yet.
I'm not sure what they've done in previous years but they've already raised over $3 million so they're still doing okay.
I think that the DDoS attacks are actually having the unintended effect of drawing more attention to the cause, so when the site is up and running, the donations make up for the downtime.
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It's really depressing that people like "Bebop" think that the mob justice enacted by Anonymous/lulzsec/other-internet-communities-that-occasionally-do-DDoS-stuff must ALWAYS have legitimate reason behind it. Sometimes they're just assholes, don't assume they're fucking Batman. They're punks.
But people are genuinely good! Unless they come together and organize themselves as a corporation. Then they are the genesis of all evil.
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