2012-03-28, 08:18 PM
Flonne Wrote:Actually, that makes sense to me; every couple weeks I have to let a few new IPs through my filter because nexon changes a few of their web server IPs. Until a site makes that change, even if anon managed to take out all 13 of those clusters, the site would still load.
Also, my former question still remains; any idea if that UDP trick they are touting will actually work to the extent that they are claiming it will?
There's no way in hell a single person could do this, unless they were a billionaire with hundreds if not thousands of state of the art PCs and were some sort of genius-savant with PCs on top of that. I can only think of one person I've actually met that was good enough with computers to figure out some loophole that would work well enough to take down the entire internet, and he was a teacher at my school who made his own personal programming language, and built an operating system for his computers from scratch. And yes, he was VERY insane, like, clinically, if you tried to sit down and have a real talk with him. They just kept him around as a head of the netsec department to answer questions from exceedingly precocious students, and he taught one or two of the highest end classes for it as well.
Arrg Wrote:Well...there are a few reasons someone wouldn't have done already...
1) This is going to need a pineappleton of manpower. Getting this kind of recruitment is vastly different from having a few friends helping you. You'd have to go very public to get enough people or not even bother.
2) So you took down a DNS server. What then? This op is a protest, anything else would just be for lulz, nothing to be gained.
3) Maybe the IPs of the DNS servers weren't very well known aside from those who had an interest in hacking or networking, so only those determined enough would be able to figure them out.
What I really meant was "If Anonymous can do it, then you'd think someone would've done it already. I accidently left that assumed in my post, I guess.