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Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by GHFigs »

danso wrote: post #61
GHFigs wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

before name appeared on police scanner Is there a recording of this? Because it sounds a lot like it never happened.

No, this happened. A purported classmate of Sunil's had tweeted about the resemblance to Suspect #2 about 14 hours ago: > @christiiinaaaxo @jaredleesmith @thejman218 Looks just like a kid from my area that went missing exactly a month and has yet to be found. > I mean maybe it's a total coincidence but I'm more than a little freaked out by the resemblance. #Boston pic.twitter.com/Qsd6rj5v5l At some point, the Interne…

the Boston police scanners said they were looking for Sunil

Did you hear this yourself, or did you read it? That's really what I'm asking. I know many people were listening, but it's hard to tell what people heard first-hand and what people simply re-tweeted.

For my own peace of mind I'm trying to distinguish between two possibilities: a) that the names were not heard on the scanner at all and whole story was either a mirage or an intentional hoax, b) that someone's erroneous tip to the police was mistaken for its own confirmation.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by schrijver »

aeze wrote: post #49
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.

isn’t ‘Pointing out ‘suspiciuos’ people’ on a public forum rather immature by itself?

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by danso »

GHFigs wrote: post #71
danso wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, this happened. A purported classmate of Sunil's had tweeted about the resemblance to Suspect #2 about 14 hours ago: > @christiiinaaaxo @jaredleesmith @thejman218 Looks just like a kid from my area that went missing exactly a month and has yet to be found. > I mean maybe it's a total coincidence but I'm more than a little freaked out by the resemblance. #Boston pic.twitter.com/Qsd6rj5v5l At some point, the Interne…

the Boston police scanners said they were looking for Sunil Did you hear this yourself, or did you read it? That's really what I'm asking. I know many people were listening, but it's hard to tell what people heard first-hand and what people simply re-tweeted. For my own peace of mind I'm trying to distinguish between two possibilities: a) that the names were not heard on the scanner at all and whole story was either…

This is an excellent point. No I did not hear it myself and would not have been able to tell what was a first-hand account of hearing it from merely retweets/reposts of that information. And whoever originally heard it may have heard chatter that said the names, but not in the context of being actual suspects.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by maxerickson »

jayrobin wrote: post #64
SnydenBitchy wrote: post #57

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The voting majority of reddit users.

while I was quite shocked by the witch-hunt and amount of 'suspicious until proven innocent' I saw in that subreddit, in fairness to reddit as a whole that is one small subreddit among thousands. Also, some of the highest upvoted threads and comments appear to be warning others of the potential negative consequences of their publicly pointing out everyone with a backpack or different coloured skin.

Some small subreddit goes off the rails every few months.

Reddit as a whole needs a better answer for that than just pointing out that it is just some small subreddit.

(I don't pretend to know what that answer is, and I guess it does have more to do with people choosing how to participate in online discussions than it does reddit, but reddit is well positioned to push that participation in a better direction)

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by dclowd9901 »

darkarmani wrote: post #53
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...

> I hope this is a retaliation for the abhorrent behaviour of reddit users You don't like vigilantes, but you hope vigilantes are punishing reddit users?

Being denied cat pictures and trite memes is a reward, not a punishment.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by mcphilip »

SnydenBitchy wrote: post #57
RobotCaleb wrote: post #56

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of some reddit users. FTFY. Let's not smear everybody in your blanket statement.

The voting majority of reddit users.

Last time I checked, the find Boston bombers subreddit had ~5K subscribers. r/humor currently has ~3.6 million. Please check your facts before making any more claims...

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by atourgates »

sgdesign wrote: post #65
bjhoops1 wrote: post #63

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"Who watches the watchmen" would have been simpler and spared me a google search.

But I wouldn't have learned a cool new latin proverb.

Also, I wouldn't have gotten that feeling of smug superiority for having read Terry Pratchett.

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by umsm »

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

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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

By definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...

Re: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack

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Post by trhtrsh »

schrijver wrote: post #72
aeze wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

isn’t ‘Pointing out ‘suspiciuos’ people’ on a public forum rather immature by itself?

For the most part, they were pointing out suspicious pictures, in the wake of a nearby large-scale criminal event. Not suspicious people by name.
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