Hackers Target 4chan with Denial of Service Attack
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This isn't news. 4Chan DDOSes itself on a regular basis.
More to the point: can we stop calling DDOSing 'hacking'? Because it's not. It's really, really not. It's the difference between an agent of espionage dismantling a government from within, and an irate mob throwing paint-balloons at the front door.
More to the point: can we stop calling DDOSing 'hacking'? Because it's not. It's really, really not. It's the difference between an agent of espionage dismantling a government from within, and an irate mob throwing paint-balloons at the front door.
"We shall fight in the basements, we shall fight in the college computer labs, we shall fight in the Starbucks and in the McDonalds with free wi-fi..."
I can't wait for the next headline
"Michelle Obama catches Barrack with gay midget porn, Barrack says he has no idea how it got there"
"Michelle Obama catches Barrack with gay midget porn, Barrack says he has no idea how it got there"
Well, I'm no expert on it but I think people don't quite get that there is a differance between Anonymous and the hordes of /B/ despite efforts being made to enlighten people on this here and there.
My immediate guess would be thatit's some internal drama that snowballed, Anonymous itself may not even be involved on the fringes. I don't follow the site so I can't make an educated guess.
That said like "Encylopedia Dramatica", "Something Awful", and other sites, "4-Chan" seems to have beeen attacked before it's all part of what goes on when sites irritate people and get attention, or have a lot of people constantly involved in one sort of drama or another.
I doubt we'll ever know what happened for sure.
One culprit I think people might not be considering are various goverments. I mean Anonymous *DID* declare war on most of the civilized world, and started taking down some computer systems. While I unlikely, given the difficulty of actually tracking down a "collective" like this and doing anything, it's possible the authorities, not understanding what they are dealing with, decided to try and make a counter-strike on what they saw as the center of activity or whatever. This is extremely unlikely compared to many other possiilities however.
My immediate guess would be thatit's some internal drama that snowballed, Anonymous itself may not even be involved on the fringes. I don't follow the site so I can't make an educated guess.
That said like "Encylopedia Dramatica", "Something Awful", and other sites, "4-Chan" seems to have beeen attacked before it's all part of what goes on when sites irritate people and get attention, or have a lot of people constantly involved in one sort of drama or another.
I doubt we'll ever know what happened for sure.
One culprit I think people might not be considering are various goverments. I mean Anonymous *DID* declare war on most of the civilized world, and started taking down some computer systems. While I unlikely, given the difficulty of actually tracking down a "collective" like this and doing anything, it's possible the authorities, not understanding what they are dealing with, decided to try and make a counter-strike on what they saw as the center of activity or whatever. This is extremely unlikely compared to many other possiilities however.
It was all anon, they'll use it as a false flag operation to start a war with Kyrgyzstan, and bam, before you know it they're balls deep in Uzbekistan with >9000 dead anons and eleventy billion dead Uzbeki civilians. And then they'll award moots buddies no bid contracts to rebuild the infrastructure.
Bingo heh. But yeah, it's not as if they haven't DDoSed themselves before over the most trivial of crap so...news to me really.Quaxar said:
Yeah this happens every few months or so. I remember last summer there was this really good one where this guy kept posting this file on the 4chan boards that caused whoever downloaded it to ddos the site. 4chan was down for a while and /b/ for even longer. Moot put up something afterward that said something to the effect of "don't download shit random people post, you idiots." It was funny. This one was kinda underwhelming though.