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I don't understand the goal though. What to gain ? Training for another big target ?
Being able to take down such big websites would probably go a long way in giving them some credibility when selling their services.
Just like trying to set your local public library on fire. There are always crazies in the world.
There was a string of arson attacks on little free libraries in Metro Vancouver; eventually a pair of teenage boys were arrested. I suspect that the sharing of knowledge and encouragement of developing wisdom is, to some, a threatening prospect. Perhaps they have experienced learning difficulties and are struggling with shame and frustration, or perhaps they disagree strongly with the concept of an intellectually lib…
Remember: there are BitTorrent links that the Wikimedia Foundation gives out of SQL dumps of Wikipedia and the other projects. You can have a copy in case this happens in your country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Wh... Also, the Kiwix project has a hotspot project that allows you to host ZIM files (dumps of Wikipedia and other CC licensed content, like TED talks and StackOverflow) on a R…
I'd actually love to see a fully working IPFS fallback for wikipedia when regular hosting doesn't work. Would it even be possible with ipfs?
Just want to mention, WMF has a very small but elite team of engineers. Amazed they maintain an Alexa top 5 site with many orders of magnitude less engineering staff than Facebook or Reddit. I think they must count ~100 engineers? I can't imagine what such a small team must be going through with a major DDOS - wish them well in their efforts!
It's because they're just serving a big site, not running the world's most sophisticated surveillance and ad serving machine. Serving giant websites isn't all that hard if you're just spewing out SQL queries into html templates. It all scales in all directions with a properly thought through architecture.
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Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines these crazies are using for their attacks, otherwise attacks like these will never stop as long as enough free “ammunition” is being left around by incompetent people who can’t be bothered to secure & monitor their systems properly. Edit: in reply to some of the (valid) counter-arguments, I'd like to say that there are indeed many…
How many of those systems are owned by private people that has no idea what to do about it? Do you plan on suing half the planet?
I don't understand the goal though. What to gain ? Training for another big target ?
- Advertising for potential DDoS service buyers - Bragging rights - Experimentation Edit: Also potentially political or personal. Eg Posting something that offends 8chan||nation states etc. There's quite often blackmail involved (Pay us $x BTC and we go away). Cloudfront or similar should offer DDoS protection for free as a gesture of goodwill, it's good bragging rights for CF so everyone wins.
Well, it is still a lot of wasted resources (bandwidth, energy, compute) for everyone involved (ISP, CF, attacker, defender, compromised machines), so I wouldn't be so quick to say that "everyone wins".
Apparently this group is behind it. Also attacked WoW and twitch servers.. https://twitter.com/ukdrillas
Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines these crazies are using for their attacks, otherwise attacks like these will never stop as long as enough free “ammunition” is being left around by incompetent people who can’t be bothered to secure & monitor their systems properly. Edit: in reply to some of the (valid) counter-arguments, I'd like to say that there are indeed many…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because they're just serving a big site, not running the world's most sophisticated surveillance and ad serving machine. Serving giant websites isn't all that hard if you're just spewing out SQL queries into html templates. It all scales in all directions with a properly thought through architecture.
Please be careful of logical tautologies: "It all scales in all directions with a properly thought through architecture" sounds dangerously like, "Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right."
Apparently this group is behind it. Also attacked WoW and twitch servers.. https://twitter.com/ukdrillas
Part of the liability should be shared with the people owning the compromised machines these crazies are using for their attacks, otherwise attacks like these will never stop as long as enough free “ammunition” is being left around by incompetent people who can’t be bothered to secure & monitor their systems properly. Edit: in reply to some of the (valid) counter-arguments, I'd like to say that there are indeed many…