Wonderful World of DDoS

[mhwest]

As some of you may know, LiveJournal has been under attack this morning from 6:00am PST until ??? We have taken steps to mitigate the DDoS but some users may still experience site connectivity problems. We are aware of these issues, and would like to take this moment to explain we are doing everything we can to keep the site up and running 100%,

Comments

[digital_nomad]

I've never understood the concept of being an asshole just to be an asshole. It's not like these attacks actually accomplish anything...

[alienghic]

Considering the DDoS attacks are going for social networking sites, perhaps someone has no friends and is really bitter about it.

[dark_thought77]

People who use social networking sites have....friends?!!

I mean real friends, not text and icons on the screen...

[alienghic]

Well I was mostly thinking of the sad lonely excuses of people who don't even have the illusionary friends of social networking.

(Though I'm at least friends with a few of the people I've "friended".)

[sircaliban]

I have never understood either. Sure.. it's possible to do.. it's been done before.. but why do it? It accomplishes nothing but annoying people.

[reservoir]

nothing but annoying people.

I believe you answered your own question

[sircaliban]

Perhaps we should create a posse.. round up the usual suspects.. and hang'em at high noon.

A couple Hangings.. and this type of behavior goes away. :P

[a_pawson]

In many cases it is extorsion. Give us $100,000 or we will knock your website offline, that sort of thing.

[dark_thought77]

It's worked in the past...and thanks to the shitty security in Windows, these guys have huge botnets to play with.

[bixcuity]

I can understand it in some cases, such as doing it to attack a rival's site and make it slow for legitimate users (and thus drive ad revenue away) or driving up the bandwidth cost of a site you don't like (even if that would take a large botnet to do) but... LiveJournal? Really?