Some people get very emotional about the games that they play and will pay to have them DDoSed because of something or someone they're angry about. Others just love to cause chaos and will happily buy a DDoS attack to screw other people over. They even get to watch the outcome in real-time because of streamers.
This is what I wonder. Must be fascinating to engineer such a massive distributed system, but at some point there’s no added value from another bazillion hosts in the network.
…to sell ddos protection to the minecraft server admins, basically extortion.
what about as an demonstration of their capabilities for someone else?
only kids want to destruct without harvesting information/resource.
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Same happens to our online game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28675094. Not sure what it is about online games that attracts DDoSes.
Some people get very emotional about the games that they play and will pay to have them DDoSed because of something or someone they're angry about. Others just love to cause chaos and will happily buy a DDoS attack to screw other people over. They even get to watch the outcome in real-time because of streamers.
This is what I wonder. Must be fascinating to engineer such a massive distributed system, but at some point there’s no added value from another bazillion hosts in the network.
I guess if they go after bigger targets they draw unwanted attention? Seemed odd to me too.