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I guess the rule is that you know you're making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you're making it as a website when they DDOS you. Geesh.
by DanielBMarkham 14y ago
I guess the rule is that you know you're making it as a startup when somebody sues you. You know you're making it as a website when they DDOS you.
Geesh.
- jaredsohn 14y agoand you know you're making it (not necessarily profitable, but at least getting some level of awareness) as a desktop product if it gets added to warez sites. :)
- pkamb 14y agoToday the Google Alert I have set up for mentions of my Mac app lit up with a new crack on a warez site. They had a full ASCII art header and everything! Put a smile on my face.
- bound008 14y agoCongrats on your success!
- eridius 14y agoWhat app?
- uxp 14y agoProbably one linked in his profile? The keyboard is a very interesting idea. There's a free version too.
- pkamb 14y agoReddit Notifier, on the Mac App Store... or less scrupulous places, apparently, if you can't spare 3 bucks! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?m...
- martinced 14y agoOh the memories : ) Would put a smile on my face too but... I decided to make part of the computation on the server-side so that my desktop software cannot be cracked without rewriting what the server-side does. My desktop app only makes sense when the Internet connection is up and doesn't "phone home" too often. If users don't like that they can GTFO. If pirates don't like that it puts a smile on my face ; )
- Gigablah 14y agoYou work for Maxis? :)
- przemoc 14y agoPlease, don't blame Maxis for EA management tier crappy ideas.
- engtech 14y agohttps://twitter.com/simcity/status/310490053803646976 https://twitter.com/simcity/status/310490053803646976 "Hey, this is on Maxis. EA does not force design upon us. We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress"
- przemoc 14y agoI feel that's only PR correctness. They possibly have to claim that it's their own fault. But well, I may be wrong, and Maxis is simply no longer the company that it used to be.
- borlak 14y agoA DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn't make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.
- IsTom 14y agoWho would you DDOS if you wanted to see if your botnet works?
- redthrowaway 14y agoWhy would it have to be for gain? I bet there's plenty of bored people with idle small- to medium-sized botnets who'd take down a somewhat popular site just for lulz.
- manojlds 14y agoFor the people doing it, the gain can be about trying out their skills, not being bored, and getting the bragging rights of having DDoSed "Hacker" News.
- Zak 14y agoI'm inclined to suspect HN's design actually makes it fairly easy to DoS.
- pmelendez 14y agoHow come? Can you explain your point a bit further?
- Zak 14y agoSure. I didn't want to put a how-to manual in this thread on the day of the attack though. HN has a big table of closures representing actions a user can take. Loading certain pages, such as the reply link on a comment creates more of them. They time out after a while, which will get you "unknown or expired link". Intentionally creating a few million of them ought to fill up the server's memory and would be a more effective way to to impair the server's functionality than simply requesting the home page a few billion times.
- calinet6 14y agoYou'd be surprised. Sometimes it just happens for no reason whatsoever. One of my sites, for example, has a curse of forum spam bots from China clearly intended to spam a different site. They're using the wrong paths and everything. It's like I'm being constantly invaded by a hoard of blind dumb chickens trying to peck my eyes out by hitting their heads against a fence. It's sad, really.
- eli 14y agoI'm consistently impressed by how many bots are smart enough to crawl the web and submit forms and even evade some captchas... but are still too dumb to realize that rapidly trying to submit comment spam to my search form isn't doing anyone any good.
- timeshifter 14y agoHave form, will post...
- mdaniel 14y agoIMHO, they fail for the same reason most software does: failure to check return values. Assuming the happy path is the road to ruin, even for spammers.