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I wonder what's the motive to target StackOverflow? A disgruntled ex-employee?
by rafale 5y ago
I wonder what's the motive to target StackOverflow? A disgruntled ex-employee?
- colinmhayes 5y agoProbably trying to ransom if I had to guess.
- HWR_14 5y agoWell, they just got rid of their job board.
- soheil 5y agoProbably the owner of one of those stackoverflow clones would see a bump in traffic => more ad revenue if SO is experiencing slower response times/downtime.
- jandrese 5y agoShould we be investigating those Expert Sex Change people?
- Godel_unicode 5y agoPresumably advertising for the ddos service; "pay us and we'll knock your target offline! Remember, we're the ones who killed stackoverflow, we can help you"
- StevePerkins 5y agoWhat an interesting question. When I first got into computing back in the 80's and 90's, people wrote viruses just for the challenge and fun of it. Some people just want to watch the world burn. This was seen as obvious motivation, it was unquestioned. It was only after crypto mining and ransonware became big things in the 2010's, that people started assuming a financial motive behind attacks. Up through the mid-2010's, people posted amateur porn largely for personal fun and ego boost. Occasionally, regular people would try to make a buck. But it was mostly people posting selfies to /r/gonewild because they enjoyed the attention. Then OnlyFans came out, and now virtually anyone posting amateur adult material can be assumed to be driving traffic to a monetization channel. Sorry for the tangents. It just strikes me how normalized "side hustle" culture has become. It was not very long ago at all that it wouldn't even occur to most of us to question a DDOS attacker's "motive".
- marcos100 5y agoSomeone is behind schedule and _really_ needed to focus on his work.
- joconde 5y agoIf I were behind schedule I would try to scrape StackOverflow so I don't get cut off from it. Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.
- ahmed_ds 5y agoWe all have been seeing random stackoverflow derivative sites pop up in search. They are taking the exact questions, description and answer and "bloggerizing" them. There are dozens of sites like this. I even came across YouTube channels with thousands and thousands videos that created slideshows with elevator music that presented SO question and answers one sentence at a time. You can convert SO posts to blogs fairly easily and they rank. I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it.
- dbmnt 5y ago> I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it. An interesting thought, but it doesn't fit with the description provided by SO of an evolving DDoS attack that originates from different networks in response to mitigations. It's not scraping. It's an attempt to deny service.
- mackrevinack 5y agobut once the SO website doesn't work for someone they would be more likely to visit the scraped version
- bmn__ 5y agoStackexchange contents are freely available with a share-alike licence, ctrl+f "user contributions" in the site footer. The data dumps are linked elsewhere in these discussion threads. They are not scraping. The secondary economic exploitation is expected. The copy sites (attempt to) capture value that the primary is unable to. Despite Google becoming worse overall, I noticed that the copy sites are consistently ranked lower than the original. What is your search engine experience? I have not encountered a robo Youtube video as you have described.