<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ronald,<div><br></div><div> This wasn't meant as a serious gesture. It's a reflection of the promotion that sparkfun.com has been having for today. They have over 2,389 people just in their IRC chat room for this promotion and their site can't handle it. In fact I've been clicking on the 'checkout' button (or trying to refresh if the page fails (which is most of the time)) for the past 45 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div> The company did their own DDOS because their promotion brought in more customers than their new servers can handle :(</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div>On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>This is highly illegal since it is a DDOS and could cause them damages<br>such as increased bandwidth costs or remote hands on their server and<br>possibly losing their hosting.<br><br>On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Lee Sonko <<a href="mailto:lee@lee.org">lee@lee.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I was thinking of mounting a DDOS attack on one of my favorite electronics<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">dealers web sites. I was thinking that a good way to bring the site down<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would be to tell everyone that they were having a "Free Sale". I figure<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">thousands of people would sit by their computers clicking the Refresh button<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">like so many monkeys for hours on end.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Do you think this would be effective?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lee<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br>https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">415-680-3964</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.glenjarvis.com/">http://www.glenjarvis.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -M. 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