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I don't understand why people want to take down websites. Especially sites like Lemmy, which isn't exactly sticking it to anyone because no one owns it!
Are they just Reddit groupies?
For most hackers or wanna-bes (often called Script Kiddies, that is, people (generally young, even children thus the "Kiddies") who are not technologically inclined enough to be real hackers and see a tutorial online on how to run pre-written scripts that repeatedly perform various functions), the answer to "Why do you do it?" is often:
"Because I was bored."
"Because I can."
Very rarely are other reasons given.
The ones seen on
masterhackerreddit.More like "I get zero action, so I take my anger out on other people"
Some people enjoy causing suffering to others. On the internet they are termed trolls. Irl people usually just call them assholes. Most people have encountered them before.
I think they are far more common and likely than anyone giving two shits about reddit.
They're just trolls. Lemmy is popular enough that it's fun target for them, but still small and infantile enough that you don't have to be hackerman to ddos it. Reddit, twitter, etc... would be constantly getting ddos'd just for the lulz by people if they didn't have the infrastructure to make it a challenge.
I was using voip.ms last year when they were DDoS'd for over a week, by a group demanding payment via anonymous crypto. The DDoS ended when they switched to CloudFlare (which was probably pretty difficult because they're a SIP provider.)
Almost any website with a small number of servers is vulnerable to this attack, which happens to be great business for CloudFlare. I wonder which companies are most effectively competing with CloudFlare?
There are others, but I think the craziest thing about Cloudflare is its basic level of protection is free. Free, unmetered, DDOS protection. It's so popular because so many hobbyists use it for free, and are familiar with it. Then they convince their workplaces to adopt it when the need arises because they are already familiar with it.
They make money by selling support to companies, and selling access to some more advanced features (that often have a free tier as well). It's honestly so impressive, it made me wonder how much they actually make because it seems unnecessary for most to pay at all. Turns out they cleared almost a billion dollars in revenue in 2022.
Nah, it's not the 00s anymore. Hacker gangs are a real thing today.
I'm not actually in the security field so take this with a grain of salt. But I believe that these attacks play a similar role to random attacks in low level gangs. It proves that your criminal group has power and the ability to deface a website.
So if you publish that Lemmy.world will go down next week because your hackers are on it.... It's advertising. Its just business. It proves that your hackers have an ability and that you are up for sale.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
Upvoting because this has to be satire
It's coming from someone over on Kbin. Wonder if that's the motivation.
You have more faith in people than I doβ¦
Delete your account and go back to reddit
Genius
Or paid for by Reddit....
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
You donβt think just being bored is enough reason for some?
If I'm bored I find something productive and/or fun to do.
Launching a DDoS attack is neither.
You, sure. Itβs not difficult to imagine a teen whoβs not you
With my tinfoil hat on, I'd say one concern is that Cloudfare is basically a monopoly and nothing is stopping them from DDoSing sites to force them to use their product.
While it's good to be suspicious, I don't think we can call CloudFlare a monopoly quite yet.
Akamai is a big, giant competitor. You also have the big cloud providers like AWS that have their own CDN systems, like CloudFront. (I don't recall GCP's or Azure's product names.) Then you have specialized CDNs like Google's AMP system.
Now, is it possible that there could be a horizontal trust between these companies? Certainly. There's few enough players for that to happen, but so far, I haven't seen signs of it happening.