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When I was 9 years old I discovered bulletin board systems, and The Cuckoos Egg. Dare I say, the headline made me shake my head and smile…
by Overtonwindow 5y ago
When I was 9 years old I discovered bulletin board systems, and The Cuckoos Egg. Dare I say, the headline made me shake my head and smile…
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoI don’t know. I grew up in the earlier era of internet mischief as well, but things are very different today. Back then, if a school’s website went down (for whatever reason) it had basically zero impact on anything. Schools were offline-first and the website was basically a side project. Now, everything revolves around the internet and websites. A school’s website going down could be a big deal for a large number of people, including interfering with the education of 100s or 1000s of students, as well as disrupting the lives of all of the parents who have to work around the disruptions. A DDoS is never really okay or cool, but I’d say that the disruptions are much worse in 2022 than they were in the days when the internet was a novelty.
- raxxorrax 5y agoWe mostly used ARP poisoning from inside the network. They never found out and we quickly could just disable the whole network of the school if we wanted to. What fun would that be today with all the remote schooling? Nope, we are not going to do a test today...