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Big botnet has nothing better to do than DDoS Minecraft servers?

• shermantanktop 1y ago
  This is what I wonder. Must be fascinating to engineer such a massive distributed system, but at some point there’s no added value from another bazillion hosts in the network.
• thenthenthen 1y ago
  …to sell ddos protection to the minecraft server admins, basically extortion.
  • dylan604 1y ago
    what about as an demonstration of their capabilities for someone else?
    • butlike 1y ago
      only kids want to destruct without harvesting information/resource.
      • dylan604 1y ago
        there's plenty of adults that are fans of scorched earth just to watch it burn. most of them just don't have the fortitude to actually do it.
        • butlike 1y ago
          Like I said, kids
• crummy 1y ago
  I guess if they go after bigger targets they draw unwanted attention? Seemed odd to me too.
• heinrich5991 1y ago
  Same happens to our online game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28675094 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28675094. Not sure what it is about online games that attracts DDoSes.
  • ziml77 1y ago
    Some people get very emotional about the games that they play and will pay to have them DDoSed because of something or someone they're angry about. Others just love to cause chaos and will happily buy a DDoS attack to screw other people over. They even get to watch the outcome in real-time because of streamers.