[Noisebridge-discuss] Human powereed DDOS idea

[Glen Jarvis]

Ronald,

     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.

      The company did their own DDOS because their promotion brought  
in more customers than their new servers can handle :(


Glen


On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:

> This is highly illegal since it is a DDOS and could cause them damages
> such as increased bandwidth costs or remote hands on their server and
> possibly losing their hosting.
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:
>> I was thinking of mounting a DDOS attack on one of my favorite  
>> electronics
>> dealers web sites. I was thinking that a good way to bring the site  
>> down
>> would be to tell everyone that they were having a "Free Sale". I  
>> figure
>> thousands of people would sit by their computers clicking the  
>> Refresh button
>> like so many monkeys for hours on end.
>>
>> Do you think this would be effective?
>>
>>
>>
>> Lee
>>
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