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DDoS attacks and similar things are of very little significance to people who don't understand what they are. In their minds, all the damage is on virtual space

• UnoriginalGuy 12y ago
  Additionally a lot of non-tech people don't understand the cost implications of a DDoS. If companies really want the media to get on board then create a figure for how many $/hour you're losing. Heck make a widget which counts upwards (e.g. we've lost $25,000 due to this DDoS since the start). The downside is it might just encourage the DDoS-ers, the upside is the media might take it seriously.
  • oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
    I'm not sure anyone understands the cost implications of a DDoS, particularly one on a third-party service. Even if you absolutely need to make a change to something that has to be done by more than one collaborator and has to be deployed via github and it has to be patched right now and there's really no other way, how do you go about estimating the losses anyway? You can't just assume that whatever average income you would have collected over the last 72 hours has been lost forever. Is anyone out there even attempting to estimate how much revenue they've lost as a result of this DDoS?
    • nateguchi 12y ago
      I'm sure a lot of companies have backup plans in place, for instance, Bitbucket repo clones or an internal copy