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Well, that was intense. A series of high profile DDoS's got my profile on the FBI want list, and it was a race against time to purge my identity before my machine got trashed.
Friday, 10-Apr-15 20:48:56 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark You got DDoS'd?
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@northernnarwhal Only in a silly browser game.
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@ceruleanspark Not sure if legit, or just playing Uplink...
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@ceruleanspark Oh, that's good. I was worried for a second there.
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@northernnarwhal Can you believe it's been over a year since the last time that happened
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@ceruleanspark 365 0 since last accident
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@ceruleanspark But in actuality I don't even think I knew about the previous DDoS's. Did any of them actually follow through?
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@rctm It's close to uplink, but, being played largely against human opponents, much easier.
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@northernnarwhal We got one once, for a while. I turned Cloudflare on and eventually they went away.
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@ceruleanspark What would want with a site like this anyway? User information? Server space?
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@northernnarwhal Getyiffed, maybe?
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@northernnarwhal A DDoS only prevents a machine from communicating with the outside world. It doesn't give any access to the machine itself. The likely cause was "someone hates us/bronies and wants the site to die"
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@redenchilada Oh, I guess I must've confused it with something else. Thanks for clearing it up.
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@redenchilada You probably could get a poorly configured server to leak data with a DDoS. If PHP or MySQL dies and starts spewing error messages into the browser, for instance. A DDoS could also be used to guarantee the servers RAM was full/flushed for something like Heartbleed to work properly.
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