Of course it's down. Whether DDoS'd or Hugged-to-death, it's vulnerable. Why don't they just distribute it as a torrent?
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Found the juggalo!
Is it possible for somebody that did download it to put up the torrent themselves?
Why don’t they just distribute it as a torrent?
Probably because they want ordinary people to be able to access it.
How's that working out for them?
Why don’t they also distribute it as a torrent?
They should just release a torrent and let us deal with the rest of it.
Russia loves the chaos in the US.
Would doxxing all these chuds really make there be less chaos though?
I guess we have to ask Russia why they did it, since they obviously did.
Where in that article did you find evidence that Russia obviously did it? Because that isn't what is in the article you posted
Skinner told The Daily Beast that a massive number of IPs began accessing the website, and a large amount of the traffic appeared to come from Russia – leading the founder to speculate the attack originated there.
“The IPs would be run through proxies before hitting our servers, meaning it’s just impossible to track the source,”
Who or what is "Russia" in your take here? The Russian government? Or Russian people? Just saying Russia did it makes no sense. Russia is a land mass in Europe and Asia and can't itself operate a computer. This is especially muddied when you realize people in Russia run the largest Hacking-as-a-service server farms so, yeah, the traffic and the bots came from inside Russia but there is no indication of who paid for it or why. If I downloaded Tor and hired DDOS as a service or Ransomware as a service like Akira, did Russia do that or did Mexico do it? Was it Mexico as a whole because I live there or a Mexican person?
Skinner said whoever is attacking the website “doesn’t want others to access the site.”
“But it just makes us more determined, because it is clear some people out there do not want the names of ICE and Border Patrol agents made public,” Skinner told The Daily Beast. “Given their behavior lately, and how they are increasingly viewed negatively by the public, that’s no surprise.”
The ICE List founder said he and his team have Direct Denial of Service protections in place, but that attacks of this kind are difficult to prevent and likely to happen again.
It probably was ICE who hired them to take the doxxing site down if you use Occam's razor.
Direct Denial of Service
who calls it that?
I have heard both directed and distributed. They both make sense to me as a description of the attack.
And?
do you have any evidence what you said is true? because i looked and i can't find any evidence it's a phrase in use.
You looked for the phrase that is literally in the article and when nothing came back you still assumed that it showed you everything? With this incongruous search result you then decided to challenge my anecdote? I don’t have any time left for trolls today.
it's not up to me to support your claim. calling me names doesn't shift the burden of proof
I didn’t call you a name I described your actions. I also freely referred what I commented as an anecdote. You can accept that I have heard other people use that phrase or don’t I don’t care. But using a search screenshot that didn’t return the article we are commenting on and then ignoring that isn’t making the argument you think it is.
Never heard of a Directed Denial of Service.
Skinner told The Daily Beast that a massive number of IPs began accessing the website, and a large amount of the traffic appeared to come from Russia
That's the literal definition of a Distributed Dienial of Service attack.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/ https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/understanding-denial-service-attacks No one calls is a Directed Denial of Service.
There are things such as an amplified DOS attack or a reflective DOS attack, but these aren't "Directed" DOS attacks.
"No you haven't, Shawn!"
Doesn't everyone do a variation of that? Weird place to focus.
it's a distributed denial of service attack. it came from a whole lot of different ip addresses
It goes to credibility. If an author/writer can’t be bothered to get the details correct, then what other facts did they get wrong too?
Since when did we start calling it direct denial of service? Hasn’t it always been distributed denial of service?
Tbf you could 1v1 my internet connection out of existence so it's probably a real thing, just wrong first D here
Yes, but ICE list was hosted by Cloudflare, and their whole shtick is being able to withstand DDoS.
I never hit cloudflare turnstile or error pages the last time I loaded it while it was impacted. Right now the IP and ASN returned are not associated with cloudflare. I think they are hosting it without a CDN which means if the server gets a lot of traffic or DDOSed it will go down.
Since AI is writing the articles and people are doing a bad job editing the output, or not even bothering to edit it.
Might not be distributed. They could have just found a really slow page and loaded it in a maximally inconvenient manner. The thing is a wiki running on php and mediawiki has a lot of dynamic pages. It may also be a typo
At that point what you’re arguing is just a denial of service (DoS). These things have been figured out for decades. There is no need to defend poor journalism.
it says "a massive number of IPs began accessing the website" which means it's distributed. Mind, they also spelt traffic wrong so who knows.
Even the way it’s described in the article is obviously a distributed denial of service attack…
When Putin is helping you out then you absolutely know you are on the wrong side, even though you'll not admit to it. A bunch of indirect russian stooges dressed up in military gear, all prancing around like 15 year olds acting tough to attract the girlies.
Girlies who they hope are 15.
all prancing around like 15 year olds acting tough to attract the girlies.
No, I think it's just bigotry.
IPFS!! Publish it!
Come to think of it, do we even know these ice agents aren't Russian nationals?
Russian and/or criminal? What would they be interested in this site? Anything to do with the Epstein files?
I agree, russia lacks motive. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the US gov but routing via russia