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> One theory is that youngsters can fall into denial-of-service attacks by firstly playing online games, and then falling into installing mods, hacks, and even
by foxbarrington 5y ago
> One theory is that youngsters can fall into denial-of-service attacks by firstly playing online games, and then falling into installing mods, hacks, and even remote access trojans to get the upperhand on their gaming rivals.
I don't think online games and mods are the gateway drug to a life of crime.
- alach11 5y agoI first encountered scripting DDOSing, rainbow tables, and other sketchy content while playing (and cheating at) RuneScape.
- detaro 5y agoearly notice about log4j was as a tool to attack rival minecraft servers. Trying to get IPs of and then DDoSing competitors in online games has a long history. etc. pp. Gaming communities absolutely are one path to these things.
- contravariant 5y agoLaunching a DDoS on a school website isn't exactly a "life of crime" either. In my mind it's about as malicious as egging a school building. Yet I don't see anyone calling for stricter regulations on eggs. Those trojans sound iffy, but the article is somewhat light on details. Personally I'd say we just leave kids free to do stupid shit, berate them for doing it and hope they learn something useful from it.