As someone completely uninvolved, indeed, not even present last night. I'm generally uninterested, but since no one else seems likely to actually say this, let me:<div><div><br></div><div>Don't be such a fucking baby.</div>
<div><br></div><div>35k votes is not a DDOS attack. It is at most a humorous attempt at vote inflation. It is the normal usage pattern for all online voting systems to expect that some people will do this; and any system that doesn't design for this was built by a n00b.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If uservoice chooses to pursue legal action against noisebridge, I very much doubt they'll succeed.</div><div><br></div><div>I mean, seriously.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Ian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@slumbrparty.com">ian@slumbrparty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">last night, there was an attempted DDOS on the noisebridge forum from<br>
75.101.62.89 and 75.101.62.88. yes. those are both noisebridge IPs.<br>
they submitted around 35,000 votes to the forum and could have taken<br>
the entire uservoice site down.<br>
<br>
i have no problem with people voicing their concerns on the mailing<br>
list, but to do something destructive and illegal using noisebridge<br>
equipment against a company that one of its members works for simply<br>
because you didnt agree with its usage is beyond pathetic. rubin, for<br>
future reference, even though you may not mean anything destructive or<br>
personal with your "abrasive" (as you put it in your personal apology<br>
to me) comments on the list, other, weaker people on the list who are<br>
followers will take them in a different way.<br>
<br>
i tried to not censor anyone on the feedback forum and accommodate<br>
everyone and tried to play the role of strictly the forum admin. one<br>
of our staff deleted the suggestion about trying to get root on our<br>
site because, well, they simply viewed it as a threat against<br>
uservoice. i assured them finding security flaws was legitimate and<br>
will even benefit us. then they pointed to the suggestions about<br>
disparaging uservoice and my comment facilitating that. then again i<br>
reassured them i was only being the site administrator and that we<br>
shouldnt censor people who use our product even if their suggestions<br>
could hurt our business. the bottom line is i put my neck out to try<br>
to provide noisebridge with something that i thought would be useful<br>
and this is the thanks i get.<br>
<br>
aside from my current situation with the company, uservoice is talking<br>
about taking legal action against noisebridge for the DDOS attack. i<br>
have begged them to allow me to solve this without legal intervention.<br>
i ask that the people who were responsible name themselves and<br>
separate them from the rest of noisebridge. if you identify yourself,<br>
explain and apologize for your actions, i think i can convince the<br>
rest of uservoice to move past this.<br>
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ian<br>
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