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The brutal thing about a DDoS on a web hosting company is that it affects their business in very long lasting ways. If an ecommerce site is down they may lose s
by dantiberian 11y ago
The brutal thing about a DDoS on a web hosting company is that it affects their business in very long lasting ways. If an ecommerce site is down they may lose sales for that day, and a small amount of customers. If a hosting provider is down then they can lose many of their customers for life.
- jacquesm 11y agoIf you look at how interconnected stuff is these days it is really not that far away (if we haven't crossed that point already) were lives will be lost due to crimes like these. The analogy for me is one of roads. If you block a road on purpose then an ambulance might not be able to reach an accident victim in time. The internet is infrastructure, just like roads and purposefully obstructing it wholesale is doing damage to a large number of parties. What is sad is that these people get away with this stuff over and over again, it is very rare for DDoS organizers to be caught, rarer still (if it even ever happened) for them to be sentenced.
- jops 11y agoAgreed. Attacks like this should be turned into a national issue and not left to Linode to deal with alone. I hope the NSA or FBI or whoever are investigating.