Worst DDOS attack in saidit's history blocked 6 hours ago

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[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

I did write my own scripts, it just interfaces with CF. If they stop we can change providers

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Then I hope those scripts are modular enough to work with open source solutions.

Those DDOS attacks were just the beginning - when the hostile parties see they aren't working well enough, the next step will be to smear this site in various "journalistic" outlets, then pressure various 3rd parties (CF, Visa, PayPal, and the rest of the usual companies) to de-platform you while providing them the manufactured outrage as an excuse.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Then I hope those scripts are modular enough to work with open source solutions.

I think they are, they can be easily adapted to other firewall services, especially if they use JSON-formatted APIs.

Yeah I know we're likely to face various troubles as we grow, I've watched what's happened to gab and voat and so on

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

they will try to go through the hosting provider and get it kicked off that way, like they did with gab

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That is a pretty bad way, as there are actually countless international hosting providers outside the GCP/AWS/DO, and even more national ones.

He should be more vary of the actual danger.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

hm. it seemed like gab had a lot of trouble with this though. are you sure it's not something to worry about and prepare against?

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Of course it's something to prepare against.
I'm just saying, preparation should not be hard - if you don't believe me, you can easily find many storage providers in relatively "safe" countries, this being one example I found after a quick search.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why did gab have a difficult time with it then? Was stuff like this not available a few years ago? I guess gab didn't go down for very long but it seemed like there was somewhat of a struggle and they were extremely grateful to find a company willing to host them when they did. I didn't follow all the details but that's what I remember.

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Well, they were likely unprepared, hence the downtime.
I see now that they briefly went down around the end of October 2018, but if it was an actual challenge, they'd go down for far longer.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Change on Thursday

Don't ask me how I know

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Why would we do that?