Comment by phyzome
9 hours ago
Note that this is a document from 28 years ago, not a current movement.
Basically, these were people who were experimenting with DDoS for political change.
9 hours ago
Note that this is a document from 28 years ago, not a current movement.
Basically, these were people who were experimenting with DDoS for political change.
In two comments, a clear illustration of how different the internet has become, when compared to the 90s. People actually read content that was longer than 140 chars. And if it sounded subversive, it would quickly spread worldwide - because that was what we were all there for. Counter-culture, hacktivism, long rants... and yeah, cats, I guess. The common denominator? Well, porn, of course.
28 years later, DDoSing modern attention spans with "walls of text"...
Yeah. "Walls of text" that -somehow- fit on three US Letter-sized pages.
In regards to TFA, the story of the Mexican Government's countermeasures is quite neat. Using the poor control of pop-up windows to making using the flooding computer somewhere between extremely annoying and impractical to use is clever.
If only present-day webmasters could do something so simple to disrupt the DDoS bots run in service of the LLM Industry...
Google is returning poisoned responses to some, I'm sure we can get more creative than that.
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