Denial of service
Wellp, been quite a while since I last posted an entry here. Reasons for that are quite many, but mainly it's due to the fact that Upa has been enganged in his post 220 symbiant/perk cycle - and isn't even out of it yet. When done, I will make some notes about it here - but for now, Upa is pretty much in stasis, regaining lost perks.
Spent some time on Divestoor though, and managed to get him to 210. Also got him a set of Lava Protection Boots and Skin Galvanizer, a Hold Hell at Bay and a Pure Novictum Ring for the Control Unit. He's all set for raiding the Beast of Pandemonium now - and I'm gonna level him up a bit more. Maybe to 215-217 or so.
However.
Guess the "buzz" of the moment is the recent Distributed Denial of Service attacks made on Funcom's servers. Obviously, it's not really possible for someone on the outside to know much about the source of these attacks - but I mean... come on... who other than a disgruntled (ex)player would have any kind of interest in setting up an attack like this on a low profile target such as Funcom? No offense to Funcom, but I fail to see what prestige is to be gained or what other motive there could be.
Oh well.
I doubt we will ever know. We, being the outsiders, the playerbase. Am fairly sure though, that the attack will be tracked down and someone held accountable. Is a common misconception that things like these can be gotten away with - but that's (mostly) only in Hollywood movies ;)
Maybe have a look at Gibson Research Corporation's Web - if wanting to dig deeper into the topic of DDoS. In particular, this attack seems similar to the one at Funcom.
Spent some time on Divestoor though, and managed to get him to 210. Also got him a set of Lava Protection Boots and Skin Galvanizer, a Hold Hell at Bay and a Pure Novictum Ring for the Control Unit. He's all set for raiding the Beast of Pandemonium now - and I'm gonna level him up a bit more. Maybe to 215-217 or so.
However.
Guess the "buzz" of the moment is the recent Distributed Denial of Service attacks made on Funcom's servers. Obviously, it's not really possible for someone on the outside to know much about the source of these attacks - but I mean... come on... who other than a disgruntled (ex)player would have any kind of interest in setting up an attack like this on a low profile target such as Funcom? No offense to Funcom, but I fail to see what prestige is to be gained or what other motive there could be.
Oh well.
I doubt we will ever know. We, being the outsiders, the playerbase. Am fairly sure though, that the attack will be tracked down and someone held accountable. Is a common misconception that things like these can be gotten away with - but that's (mostly) only in Hollywood movies ;)
Maybe have a look at Gibson Research Corporation's Web - if wanting to dig deeper into the topic of DDoS. In particular, this attack seems similar to the one at Funcom.
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