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Isaacsname said:
... I thought it was something I said..

... how do you know it wasn’t?? :bugeye:


(:smile:)
 
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1:23 PM EST Southeast Florida -- responding ok now. Thanks GB.
 
2:00 PM EST -- Been working normally fast for the past half hour.
 
Thank you for your efforts! It's working for me now too!
 
"Mission Accomplished"

We have to reclaim that phrase! With "Winner" going down the toilet after all...
 
DevilsAvocado said:
... how do you know it wasn’t?? :bugeye:


(:smile:)

"...ulp "
 
It's working pretty good these past few hours.
 
Can we start DDoSing the Creationist Scientologists now?
 
Char. Limit said:
Can we start DDoSing the Creationist Scientologists now?

If it were legal...
 
nismaratwork said:
If it were legal...

Was what they did legal? I say that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right" !

:biggrin:
 
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Char. Limit said:
Was what they did legal? I say that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right" !

:biggrin:

Ahhh... sweet reciprocal justice... don't tempt me! :smile:
 
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Char. Limit said:
Can we start DDoSing the Creationist Scientologists now?

Yeah, we got to do(s) something. Now they’re saying DOS 6.2 is only a couple of days old, and blessed... I’m worried... they are quickly gathering more "evidence"...

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Good to see that Evo has taken the fight with these living dinosaurs!
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:smile:
 
Isaacsname said:
"...ulp "

Cool. :cool: I just knew it; you are an expert on network layers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_layer_protocol" !
 
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Fredrik said:
Any idea who was behind it?

Char. Limit said:
Creationist Scientologists

Trust me. :biggrin:
 
Geez, who the heck would DDOS forums about physics? The last couple of days was nightmare. But now PF loads fine, but with a slight lag.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Why the past tense. It's still happening :) We'll never know.

We could... you're just too darned moral to take those steps, or to take them by proxy. Respectable that, but... frusterating.


@what: "spectacular" usually means hundreds of thousands of bots in a network... if that had happened here, it wouldn't have been slow, it would have been inaccessible.

The thing that really pisses me off about DDOS, beyond the increase to the cost of throughput, is that it relies on exploiting random people to use as drones! What the hell is the point of compromising so many computers, then abuse their connection... which also drives prices up.

Botnets of all kinds are therefore hunted extensively, but are by nature elusive... they are a very corrosive force on the net. Sadly, the best ways to attack them, are also illegal and immoral.
 
nismaratwork said:
We could... you're just too darned moral to take those steps, or to take them by proxy. Respectable that, but... frusterating.


@what: "spectacular" usually means hundreds of thousands of bots in a network... if that had happened here, it wouldn't have been slow, it would have been inaccessible.

The thing that really pisses me off about DDOS, beyond the increase to the cost of throughput, is that it relies on exploiting random people to use as drones! What the hell is the point of compromising so many computers, then abuse their connection... which also drives prices up.

Botnets of all kinds are therefore hunted extensively, but are by nature elusive... they are a very corrosive force on the net. Sadly, the best ways to attack them, are also illegal and immoral.

Hey, botnets can be used for good. I offer up as an example the botnets that DDoS'd Ben Ali's websites in Tunisia, showing internet support for the revolutionaries. Tunisian revolutionaries actually credited Anonymous for helping them.
 
Char. Limit said:
Hey, botnets can be used for good. I offer up as an example the botnets that DDoS'd Ben Ali's websites in Tunisia, showing internet support for the revolutionaries. Tunisian revolutionaries actually credited Anonymous for helping them.

They can subverted for good purposes, but that's still an expoloitation of other computers, and most script kiddies leave computers highly vulnerable as a result of their "exploits".

Hacktivism is good, but not at the expense of bystanders.
 
maybe that kid asking for poisons didn't like the DHMO answer
 
Proton Soup said:
maybe that kid asking for poisons didn't like the DHMO answer

Next time we'll tell him to mix the bleach with ammonia and take deep breaths...
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Why the past tense. It's still happening :) We'll never know.
Bobc2's philosophy of physics professor told him (link) that the room down the hall doesn't exist until he walks over there and opens the door, and since I trust everything that philosophers say, even when they contradict other philosophers, I say that this DDOS attack doesn't exist anymore.
 
Proton Soup said:
maybe that kid asking for poisons didn't like the DHMO answer
Maybe he was on a IUPAC standards committee and simply didn't like the incorrect nomenclature. Do any of the DoS packets come from iupac.org?
IUPAC committee said:
We will smite PF!
:-p
 
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nismaratwork said:
... What the hell is the point of compromising so many computers, then abuse their connection...

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