Twitter & Facebook PROBLEMS LOL

[GommeInc]

Why are you people arguing? Surely it's BBC who is to blame, for using the word "hackers" to describe an attack on the two websites? I'm assuming Jack doesn't know the difference (or didn't know until now ).

[04Jack04]

Why are you people arguing? Surely it's BBC who is to blame, for using the word "hackers" to describe an attack on the two websites? I'm assuming Jack doesn't know the difference (or didn't know until now ).

Excuse me? If someone uses the word 'hackers' it generally means they are going to 'hack', 'hacking' or have had 'hacked' something.

[HotelUser]

To be honest I think the whole social networking thing is overrated (especially Twitter, it's idea is ridiculously simple). Having said that, I am guilty of using Twitter on the occasion.

[Chippiewill]

I just found out that it was a DDoS against one person's account on:

Facebook - Errors Occur
Twitter - Went down
Youtube - It's run by google, as if it would go down :rolleyes:
And that other one I forgot the name of

[N!ck]

Excuse me? If someone uses the word 'hackers' it generally means they are going to 'hack', 'hacking' or have had 'hacked' something.

Do you even know the correct sense of the term "hack"? The media and whatever throw this work around meaning something that it isn't ie cracking in this sense, and why would a person need to be a "hacker" to have a botnet anyway?

I just found out that it was a DDoS against one person's account on:

Facebook - Errors Occur
Twitter - Went down
Youtube - It's run by google, as if it would go down :rolleyes:
And that other one I forgot the name of

Nah, no-one's safe. A big enough botnet could disrupt Google/YouTube. It would have to be extremely huge though.

[Chippiewill]

Do you even know the correct sense of the term "hack"? The media and whatever throw this work around meaning something that it isn't ie cracking in this sense, and why would a person need to be a "hacker" to have a botnet anyway?



Nah, no-one's safe. A big enough botnet could disrupt Google/YouTube. It would have to be extremely huge though.

That's like saying you could take down the root servers. That's all you need to do to kill the entire internet. (Except for IPs thank god. I actually fill my hosts file with domain names that never change ip. E.g. google)

[N!ck]

That's like saying you could take down the root servers. That's all you need to do to kill the entire internet. (Except for IPs thank god. I actually fill my hosts file with domain names that never change ip. E.g. google)

Why would you do that? Google load balance you so you don't go to the same IP every time anyway. Surely any time saved with DNS would be negated by probably not being on the optimal server at that time?

And I'm sorry but if these people "kill" the Internet then they have no internet to go around and be bad-ass on. They probably wouldn't dare go for the root servers anyway.

[Recursion]

People have gone for the root nameservers, I was reading about it yesterday, interesting stuff! LOL

[N!ck]

People have gone for the root nameservers, I was reading about it yesterday, interesting stuff! LOL

From Wikipedia:

"On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack.""

Oh dear.

[efq]

This was posted yesterday?... and it wasn't hacked.