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12/26/2014 2:10:00 AM
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Opinions on this ddos
So a quick question here guys and some feed back wanted. If today is the result of another ddos attack like last night was, then that means psn was down on the two biggest nights of the year, Christmas and Christmas eve.
From everything ive read, ddos attacks cannot be prevented or immediately stopped once they begin. Does that mean that any time some one gets pissed at sony they can just ddos them and completely shut down psn till its fixed? And once its fixed couldnt they just keep doing it indefinitely to keep the servers off line?
I seriously feel like we are at the mercy of the people that do this and the psn can be held hostage any time some one feels like it. Is the answer of " ddos attacks cannot be prevented" a good enough answer from sony about this? Im really considering selling my ps4 and xbone if this is the case. Can anyone shed some more light on this or tell me if im right or wrong with my info up top? Also your thoughts and opinions on all of this.
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Best comparison I have read... Imagine you are waiting for a call for job offer and some people don't like you. So they start using 20 different phones to call you throughout the day, and the job offer call receives a busy signal. This is the same thing on a much larger scale. All they are really doing is no different than you hitting the refresh button really fast over and over on your browser. Except, their scripts do not wait for a response and run a request every millisecond (or close to it). It is extremely difficult to detect what traffic is from a ddos attack, and which is from a legitimate source. Also, there is ip spoofing and all other kinds of masking of the source that hides the true source of the request. So, when traffic ramps up, frontend software may respond with a message that it can't receive any more traffic. Legitimate sources can say "ok, i won't send any more requests", but malicious sources will keep on sending. This can help isolate the malicious sources and just drop requests from them. Sony and Microsoft are just today's targets. The fun will pass and and the attackers will get bored and/or move on to other sites.
