4chan has been DDOSed

http://status.4chan.org/

by roadnottaken • 16 years ago

79 48 16 years ago

status.4chan.org

jedsmith• 16 years ago

Oh, the irony.

mikecane2• 16 years ago

I wonder which three-letter agency is doing it? EDIT: Or could it be the BofA War Room?

JonnieCache5• 16 years ago

Three Letter Agencies don't have to DDOS. They just send in the heavies. It's cheaper.

Dilpil• 16 years ago

My guess would be that 4chan is somehow DDOSing itself, in pursuit of some subtle poetic irony outsiders like us simply could not understand.

stcredzero2• 16 years ago

ebaum's?

selectnull• 16 years ago

Well, at least nobody can accuse them of not having a sense of humor; from their status page: "We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.—an exclusive club!" :)

http://status.4chan.org/index.html#2340645311017721788

coderdude2• 16 years ago

That's just the owner of 4chan, who I doubt condones the attacks his community performs on other sites. This status page doesn't represent how the channers feel about not being able to access something they want to access.

nakkiel2• 16 years ago

I like your emphasis! I will never ever tell my story enough of how I was in a really sad story in a developing country, badly in need of (a lot of) cash and ended up borrowing what is here several months worth salary from a local friend to settle the issue because I couldn't withdraw from ATMs thanks to Anonymous.

That is the day I truly realized there was at least one person I could ask anything, so I'm not too mad at them. Well maybe that's because I put myself into that situation too :)

dstein• 16 years ago

Begun, the cyberwars have.

fredoliveira• 16 years ago

Well, at least those kids might take in some Vitamin D today. Some might even do something interesting.

noamsml• 16 years ago

Nah. They'll just go to SomethingAweful.

electromagnetic2• 16 years ago

No they'll probably just run an auto-refresher and play Xbox and spam up Halo: Reach with moronic chatter and team kills.

blhack• 16 years ago

Doesn't this happen once every couple of months?

JonnieCache5• 16 years ago

Anyone fancy heading down to the anonymous IRC chans to find out what they're saying about it? I would but I don't know where they are, and I don't want to think about what horrors the anon crew might have googlebombed to the top of the "4chan anonymous irc channel server" results.

omarchowdhury• 16 years ago

That query has the first result leading to 4chan.org/faq. Their IRC channel is located at #4chan at Rizon (irc.rizon.net)

winternett• 16 years ago

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves everybody blind and toothless. Obviously.

sp332• 16 years ago

I critiqued this usage before so... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1706850

ajaimk• 16 years ago

Isn't this like pissing into the cell pool?

redthrowaway• 16 years ago

No news here; 4chan gets DDoSed all the time. Whether it's Kimmo Alm from Anontalk, or the orange box fiasco (not necessarily disparate events), or a back-raid, or, or, or... They make themselves a target. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with recent activities.

4chan has been DDOSed

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