News Defacement Contest Ends With a Twist

From eWeek:

Rather than spending Sunday defacing Web pages—which, let's admit it, has become a bit passé—some crackers decided instead to disrupt a planned defacement contest by knocking offline the Web site where competitors were supposed to record their crimes.

The group directed a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the Zone-H.org site about an hour after the defacement contest supposedly began. The attack, combined with a massive spike in the site's normal traffic flow, made the site almost completely unreachable for about 7 hours Sunday. The site's owners were able to set up a secondary Web page late in the day to accommodate some traffic, and the attack eventually subsided around 10 p.m. Estonian time (3 p.m. ET).

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Oh, the irony.....

 

Serves them right! What right do they have to deface other's websites all in the name of a competition. How sad can you get?

 

whats the point in defacing other peoples work, what d'you get out of it??? a kick, an adrenaline rush??? now how would you feel if someone when out and did it to you.... destroying your machine, rendering it useless, what kind of buzz would you get then??

 

Serves them right, what did they expect really.

Does anyone know the law about DoS? I've programmed most of a DoS Attack screen saver, i was intially planing to use it against a childporn site i reached when searching for info on electronics but ******* like zone-h seem like good targets also since my host was affected.

[Edit] Please don't try to subvert the swear filter - GOO

 

be really carefull with that, you should really report it because if the authorities catch themand then find your ip in their logs, they can and will **** you over with that. i feel strongly against child porn and they deserve all they get. or at least castration...

[Edit] Please don't try to subvert the swear filter - GOO

 

I tried, its legal, some loophole: they protest that it is Art, so a simple title "Art" legalises child porn now, what a 'civilised' society. Most of its members are 4something men as well <shudders at the thought>. There is a whole network of them from the same server about 10 for all tastes, so if a few people used the screen saver it would DoS the server with the space CPU cycles and spare bandwidth to take all the sites down for as long as the people used it.

This is going severely off topic now.

NB: Hello Mr Government agent man!

 

sorry about dragging it even more off topic but i have to give props to what acrimonious is trying to do

 

Keep the discussion on topic please.