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I'm not necessarily against feds going after DDOSers, but this is a shameful, politically motivated retribution. The "crime" here is not sending packets to DDO
by kkowalczyk 15y ago
I'm not necessarily against feds going after DDOSers, but this is a shameful, politically motivated retribution.
The "crime" here is not sending packets to DDOS PayPal but criticizing the goverment. The goverment is in turn showing they're not afraid to destroy lives of those who do.
DDOS attacks are pretty much an epidemic on the internet. I'm pretty sure every major company like Google or Microsoft or Amazon has to deal them on a regular basis (http://mashable.com/2009/12/24/ddos-attack-amazon/ http://mashable.com/2009/12/24/ddos-attack-amazon/ for just one example of an attack that was actually successful and well publicized).
Huge botnets make it relatively easy to launch an attack.
This is not some new fact - existence of bots, DDOS attacks on many hosts, that's been known for years and yet this is one of the few times where feds lifted a finger to combat it and certainly the first time where it's done on such a scale and based on such a flimsy evidence and small transgressions like an individual running a DDOS tool (which, by itself, is not nearly enough to bring a website down, it only works if many people are doing it at the same time).
This is not a coincidence and not really that surprising - you fight the goverment, the goverment will fight you.
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- Shenglong 15y agoThat could be one explanation. However, it's also true that this series of attacks has been some of the highest profile attacks ever publicized. Even if the government wasn't attacked, they'd probably have to do something to appease the general public. "We're doing nothing" probably wouldn't fly.
- rayiner 15y agoIf you read the article, this list of "protestors" is the list of IP addresses who hit PayPal with the most DDOS packets.
- andreyf 15y agoThey were still simple home connections. Big companies suffer attacks far greater than the bandwidth any one of the people arrested.
- darksaga 15y agoAfter reading the article, it appears as though Anon were lured into the attack by PayPal. Then it sounds like the Feds already had all their stuff in place to collect the data while the attacks were happening.
- GHFigs 15y agoAfter reading the article and most of the affidavit, it sounds like you completely made up both of these claims.
- pyre 15y ago> Then it sounds like the Feds already had all their > stuff in place to collect the data while the attacks > were happening. [citation needed] My read says that PayPal had some sort of network monitoring system in place which allowed them to capture data during the attack. They then handed this information over to the Feds.
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