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Win Downtime - March 5 2020
posted ago by Doggos FL ago by Doggos +4618 / -0

As you can see, Win is back up.

At 6:44am EST, Win's primary host terminated our services.

We've switched to a different provider and are pursuing long term solutions.

There is no scenario where we will be bullied into shutting down, we are here for the long haul.

It is more important than ever that you share The Donald with all the Trump supporters in your life.

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– trauncher 56 points ago +60 / -4

cloudflare wiped out 8chan in one stroke.

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– acceptable_volume 51 points ago +51 / -0

Sort-of.

People hate 8chan, and it's constantly being DDoSed. Cloudflare is a proxy that saves bandwidth and protects against DDoS. Cloudflare also serves as the public face so that people can't tell who you are actually hosting with.

So, when Cloudflare terminates them, or Stormfront, etc., then the "Digital Justice Warriors" go to town taking it out. You can rack up tens of thousands in bandwidth bills in a month trying to fight botnets.

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– nothingberg 39 points ago +39 / -0

DDOSing is illegal. Why isn't the FBI looking into every instance of ddosing

In the United States, the people that take part in DDoS attacks run the risk of being charged with legal offenses at the federal level, both criminally and civilly. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is the applicable law (18 U.S.C. §1030). For a person to violate the CFAA, he has to intentionally cause damages to a computer system part of interstate or foreign commerce (18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A)) (http://www.technicallylegal.org/the-legality-of-denial-of-service-attacks/, 2010). Attempted DDoS attacks may also be prosecuted (http://users.atw.hu/denialofservice/ch08lev1sec2.html).

Private parties that play the role of an intermediary along the vector of DDoS attack, such as ISPs, may also press civil charges to recoup their financial losses on the grounds of a violation of the “terms of service” agreement, which, by the way, has validity tantamount to a legal contract. Serious violations may lead to a lawsuit for breach of contract and even trespass to chattels

(http://www.technicallylegal.org/the-legality-of-denial-of-service-attacks/, 2010).

Seeing the serious statutory measures, there is no wonder that Facebook decided to terminate groups that call for participation in DDoS attacks (http://www.technicallylegal.org/the-legality-of-denial-of-service-attacks/, 2010).

https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/legality-ddos-criminal-deed-vs-act-civil-disobedience/

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– Umilmi81 28 points ago +28 / -0

It's resource intensive to track down DDOS attacks and it's a petty crime. It's a cost benefit thing. Most of the computers used in DDOS attacks belong to little old ladies who don't know the Dell they got from their grandson in 2005 is a node on a Chinese controlled headless bot network.

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