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Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by atc »

garethadams wrote: post #23
manojlds wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By definition, DDOS, are malicious no? Otherwise, the site is just having high traffic that it cannot handle. If my blog goes down after being on the front page of HN, is that a DDOS?

I think it's more the term "attack" that indicates maliciousness. Getting Slashdotted or Hacker Newsed is definitely a distributed denial of service, but it's not so much an attack

It's therefore NOT a DDoS if the traffic is from legitimate sources.

DDoS is by definition malignant.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by alienth »

foob wrote: post #34

Reddit also got hammered pretty hard by legitimate traffic last night. There were many thousands of people in the Boston live update threads hitting refresh over and over all night. The admins actually locked the first update page because they said that so much traffic on an article with so many comments would crash the site. If there's a malicious DDOS attack then this surge in legitimate traffic likely compounded t…

The traffic surge from the Boston incident is extremely marginal compared to the DDoS which we're facing right now. It is far and above any form of possibly being compounded, unfortunately.

But I wish it was :) Compounding I can deal with, astronomical is harder.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by wjamesg »

josteink wrote: post #15

As opposed to a non-malicious DDOS attack? Sorry about the snarky remark, but the headline does feel a tad redundant.

"Typical HN Top-poster - up in arms about one point they care about, misses entire point of article."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4780475

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

josteink wrote: post #15

As opposed to a non-malicious DDOS attack? Sorry about the snarky remark, but the headline does feel a tad redundant.

Yes, as opposed to a non-malicious one.

The best example off the top of my head was a D-Link firmware update which added an NTP server operated by a third party for "public use." This wound up increasing the NTP server's traffic by 90% and costing them over $8K/year in additional bandwidth fees. See [1].

Then you have so called "slashdotting." Or linking to a small web-site with an interesting story and overloading it with legitimate traffic until it goes down. See [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#D-L...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by GHFigs »

krcz wrote: post #35
radge wrote: post #30

I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users in blind smearing of innocent individuals in an attempt to prove the worth of social media/the internet/their "community". Information is dangerous when it is placed in the hands of these clowns and reddit needs to address their problems quickly before they ruin more lives. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-bos...

Actually posts containing speculations about Sunil (missing student) were instantaneously deleted (as groundless and potentially harmful) , at least before name appeared on police scanner, at least on r/findbostonbombers. Info was spread somewhere else, because new people constantly were creating ones.

before name appeared on police scanner

Is there a recording of this? Because it sounds a lot like it never happened.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by pekk »

krcz wrote: post #35
radge wrote: post #30

I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users in blind smearing of innocent individuals in an attempt to prove the worth of social media/the internet/their "community". Information is dangerous when it is placed in the hands of these clowns and reddit needs to address their problems quickly before they ruin more lives. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-bos...

Actually posts containing speculations about Sunil (missing student) were instantaneously deleted (as groundless and potentially harmful) , at least before name appeared on police scanner, at least on r/findbostonbombers. Info was spread somewhere else, because new people constantly were creating ones.

Actually Sunil wasn't the main person who had been accused on Reddit

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by aeze »

radge wrote: post #30

I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users in blind smearing of innocent individuals in an attempt to prove the worth of social media/the internet/their "community". Information is dangerous when it is placed in the hands of these clowns and reddit needs to address their problems quickly before they ruin more lives. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-bos...

Can you show me some examples of abhorrent behavior? In the few reddit threads I skimmed about the bombing everyone was surprisingly mature, especially when pointing out 'suspicious' people.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by darkarmani »

radge wrote: post #30

I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users in blind smearing of innocent individuals in an attempt to prove the worth of social media/the internet/their "community". Information is dangerous when it is placed in the hands of these clowns and reddit needs to address their problems quickly before they ruin more lives. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-bos...

Have any lives been ruined by Reddit? Do you have proof of this?
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