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> It almost sounds like blaming women who wear certain types of clothes for attracting sex crime. I completely stopped reading this comment here, when you wrot
by jsprinkles 14y ago
> It almost sounds like blaming women who wear certain types of clothes for attracting sex crime.
I completely stopped reading this comment here, when you wrote this, because that was a completely off-base comparison and has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. Worse, you probably know it; I wouldn't assume you to be stupid. And that was a mountainously stupid comment.
In hosting, there are customers that attract DoS attacks. Period. Ask anybody who does hosting. IRC servers are a canonical example and are DoS magnets. Torrent trackers are another. Pastebin sites, like Pastie, are becoming another (look who uses pastebin.com a lot: Anonymous). Hell, Facebook and Google probably takes several DoS attacks a day just by nature of being well-known.
Don't even conflate my argument with an undertone of sexism.
- kijin 14y agoSorry if my comment came across as suggesting that your argument had an "undertone of sexism". I definitely wasn't trying to say anything of the sort. It was just an analogy that popped into my mind, and I don't think it was a particularly bad analogy. But I don't think your unwarranted indignation adds anything to the question that I was trying to ask to other HNers. Unfortunately, that question was at the end of my comment, past the point where you stopped reading.
- codexon 14y agoI know this is the norm for the hosting industry, but to anyone else, not being able to host a chat server (IRC) is blaming the victim. It is as ridiculous as banning airports because it attracts suicide bombers. The longer hosting companies put off developing a real solution to this problem, the more DDoS attacks are going to happen because they are so effective at getting servers kicked.