[Noisebridge-discuss] Human powereed DDOS idea

[Michael Shiloh]

actually, they just installed new servers a couple of weeks ago, and 
figured this was a fun way of stress testing them :-)

Glen Jarvis wrote:
> 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 
>> <mailto: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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