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Following the doxxing of the people behind pr0gramm.com the community knew that retaliation by ddos or other bad methods would not work for Brian Krebs, who enj

Following the doxxing of the people behind pr0gramm.com the community knew that retaliation by ddos or other bad methods would not work for Brian Krebs, who enjoys DDOS protection by google. So they started a donation raid on the German Cancer Help Foundation, because Krebs literally tranlates to cancer in german. The raid is ongoing and unconfirmed sources talk about 11k donations. The avarage ammount seems to be > 15€ with at least one single donation of 10k€ rel. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678536

jstanley 9y ago
I don't understand? They're getting back at Krebs by donating to a charity?
- tscs37 9y ago
  Cancer translates to Krebs in germany, they're donating to "fight against Krebs" so to speak.
- namibj 9y ago
  They are DDOSing a german cancer help, krebshilfe. See the substring match?
  - lawl 9y ago
    They aren't (intentionally) DDoSing. The site simple couldn't handle the legitimate load of thousands of donations.
- lweber 9y ago
  The word "Krebs" in German translates to crab as well as cancer. They are donating to the charities that work against cancer and are commenting "Krebs ist scheiße" which would translate to "Cancer is shit" as well as "[Brian ]Krebs is shit".
  - ChrisSD 9y ago
    But aren't they still, in essence, donating to charity to get back at Krebs?
    - lawl 9y ago
      I think it's more of a peaceful protest against his questionable journalism practices rather than getting back at him. But yes.
    - Tomte 9y ago
      Yes, that makes it so beautiful, IMO. And since the server crashed, they donated to other charities, as well. DKMS saw many donations, as well.
- IAmEveryone 9y ago
  Yeah, I was having a bit of trouble as well... They're not (intentionally) DDOSing the charity. The charity's website is simply overloaded from visitors seeking to donate. The charity's slogan is "Cancer (Krebs) is one of the worst problems of our time". So I guess it makes sense. Somehow. It's the sort of passive-egressive altruism that quite elegantly straddles the divide of childishness and maturity.
wjnc 9y ago
That's a big plus in hacker humour, considering DDoS, swatting and other malicious stuff (get it) flung at Krebs. Edit: are they DDoSsing or donating? If the former, than it's even worse form. Had my hopes up for a second. The article talks about a failing site because of many donations, but other replies here about DDoS.
- cabraca 9y ago
  They are donating and posting their confirmation mails on pr0gramm.com. The servers cant keep up with the amount of donations.
  - kurthr 9y ago
    Hmmm... it's interesting if true. Or we could be being trolled by the same group along with Von Lars Wienand. It would still be a bit sad if a cancer donation site could be brought down with so much less than 1 donation per second, but I'd use occam's razor.
    - tmz 9y ago
      The institutes which have been donated to are confirming a huge amount of Donations, which started last night. So there are very many real donations.
      - kurthr 9y ago
        Awesome! There were 4000 (plus 73) donations at the time and I hear that there have been more than 10k over the last day for more than 100k euro. Still we don't know if that brought down the server accidentally or on purpose. It's a question of intent, and their desire for publicity. Sadly, it only takes one.
- lawl 9y ago
  No DDoSing, the site is collapsing from donations.

jstanley 9y ago

I don't understand? They're getting back at Krebs by donating to a charity?

tscs37 9y ago
Cancer translates to Krebs in germany, they're donating to "fight against Krebs" so to speak.
namibj 9y ago
They are DDOSing a german cancer help, krebshilfe. See the substring match?
- lawl 9y ago
  They aren't (intentionally) DDoSing. The site simple couldn't handle the legitimate load of thousands of donations.
lweber 9y ago
The word "Krebs" in German translates to crab as well as cancer. They are donating to the charities that work against cancer and are commenting "Krebs ist scheiße" which would translate to "Cancer is shit" as well as "[Brian ]Krebs is shit".
- ChrisSD 9y ago
  But aren't they still, in essence, donating to charity to get back at Krebs?
  - lawl 9y ago
    I think it's more of a peaceful protest against his questionable journalism practices rather than getting back at him. But yes.
  - Tomte 9y ago
    Yes, that makes it so beautiful, IMO. And since the server crashed, they donated to other charities, as well. DKMS saw many donations, as well.
IAmEveryone 9y ago
Yeah, I was having a bit of trouble as well... They're not (intentionally) DDOSing the charity. The charity's website is simply overloaded from visitors seeking to donate. The charity's slogan is "Cancer (Krebs) is one of the worst problems of our time". So I guess it makes sense. Somehow. It's the sort of passive-egressive altruism that quite elegantly straddles the divide of childishness and maturity.

wjnc 9y ago

That's a big plus in hacker humour, considering DDoS, swatting and other malicious stuff (get it) flung at Krebs. Edit: are they DDoSsing or donating? If the former, than it's even worse form. Had my hopes up for a second. The article talks about a failing site because of many donations, but other replies here about DDoS.

cabraca 9y ago
They are donating and posting their confirmation mails on pr0gramm.com. The servers cant keep up with the amount of donations.
- kurthr 9y ago
  Hmmm... it's interesting if true. Or we could be being trolled by the same group along with Von Lars Wienand. It would still be a bit sad if a cancer donation site could be brought down with so much less than 1 donation per second, but I'd use occam's razor.
  - tmz 9y ago
    The institutes which have been donated to are confirming a huge amount of Donations, which started last night. So there are very many real donations.
    - kurthr 9y ago
      Awesome! There were 4000 (plus 73) donations at the time and I hear that there have been more than 10k over the last day for more than 100k euro. Still we don't know if that brought down the server accidentally or on purpose. It's a question of intent, and their desire for publicity. Sadly, it only takes one.
lawl 9y ago
No DDoSing, the site is collapsing from donations.