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I thought about this early on when DDOS against russia were being promoted here on HN. Projecting DDOS across continents isn't practical. The entire idea is poi
by incomingpain 5y ago
I thought about this early on when DDOS against russia were being promoted here on HN. Projecting DDOS across continents isn't practical. The entire idea is pointless, Oceanic cables are all going to have IPS running to better utilize them. They are a highly utilized precious resource. Later on, Russia released the IPs of ddos attackers and they were all from their neighbours. No attacks really came from the USA.
1. It is obviously a crime, not actual ddosing as that's difficult to prove. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encouraging_or_assisting_a_crime_in_English_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encouraging_or_assisting_a_cri...
2. What prosecutor can find a jury that will convict you for being anti-Russia? They won't even consider wasting their time for a second charging you.
3. If you'll never be charged let alone be found guilty, it is illegal?
4. Morality and ethics? You are clearly in the wrong here. Don't try to add to the problem. You don't end a war by adding to it.
- rvz 5y ago> 4. Morality and ethics? You are clearly in the wrong here. Don't try to add to the problem. You don't end a war by adding to it. Precisely. Especially telling less technical people / followers of that YouTuber to put themselves at risk of running a program that they don't know what it does and instead attacks them instead of the intended target and also gets themselves de-anonymised and caught by the authorities. It is indeed a pointless endeavour that gets them no where.