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Who DDOS'es twitter? Mercurial committers? the Bitbucket people?
by alook 14y ago
Who DDOS'es twitter? Mercurial committers? the Bitbucket people?
- Stefan_H 14y agodid you mean "who DDOS'es Github"?
- danso 14y agoAssuming you mean github: people who want to cause chaos.
- fusiongyro 14y agoI heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it. Somewhere outside America; India or Thailand or somewhere else. Anyway, that kind of business practice wouldn't get you far in the Western world, so it seems unlikely. OTOH, if I had a botnet and I wanted to see how powerfully it could DDOS without drawing a lot of mainstream media attention, github might be good for target practice. They have better infrastructure than most, and they always do detailed write-ups afterwards.
- riffraff 14y agoOT: the urban legend about tire shops putting nails in the neighborhoods' is very widespread. I have heard about it in at least three countries, and I recall my school teacher telling me about it in '91. I sort of expect it wouldn't be an effective practice anywhere.
- huhtenberg 14y agoIt's an urban legend until you actually catch a nail and there is a tire shop conveniently located not 100 yards away. True story, Indian reservation in BC, Canada. Who cares if it's a tacky business model or an urban legend. It works.
- jbigelow76 14y agoProbably somebody pissed off their pull request was refused.
- felixthehat 14y agoYou do hear rumours of mafia types holding sites to ransom by DDOS... that was one of my thoughts
- tlrobinson 14y agoSome men just want to watch the world burn.