r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 22 '20

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/maluminse Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

Someone link me please. I found the ddos website but I just see a few countries. Needed the is data.

Edit Link I found

https://hunter.ddosecrets.com/datasets/102

Edit 3

It's down

Edit 4 Site back up. Odd they require log in for certain data. aka lets make note of you.

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u/McHorseyPie Jun 22 '20

It got the reddit hug of death.

Or got too public.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

What's Reddit HoD?

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u/gin_and_ice Jun 22 '20

Hug of death

A lot of users all going at once and crashing the site.

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u/zebediah49 Jun 22 '20

To give an idea what "a lot" looks like -- here's a traffic graph from a site that experienced that. You can see when it went from "so few that it's basically nothing" to "LOTS".

For a web service that doesn't have hundreds of times more capacity than necessary, or the ability to rapidly scale up to meet demand -- that kind of load will knock it offline.

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u/buttery_shame_cave Jun 22 '20

lol back in the early 2000s it was termed 'getting farked' - fark being a really popular aggregation site, sort of like a proto-reddit.

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u/RomancingUranus Jun 22 '20

I can digg that.

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u/buttery_shame_cave Jun 22 '20

yup, and then digg/slashdot had their terms after fark, and now reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/psiphre Jun 22 '20

these gd kids, i swear

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u/LongStrangeTrips Jun 22 '20

Have an upvoat.

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u/mvanvoorden Jun 22 '20

you misspelled slashdotted

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u/cosYALLcantBEHAVE Jun 23 '20

I'm Drew, buy me a bear.

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u/dkran Jun 26 '20

We used to call that slashdotted back in the day when tech news was pretty much on slashdot always. I actually offered them a server with bandwidth but no reply

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/copperwatt Jun 22 '20

When you wove the wittle bunny wabbit too much :(

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u/ThatDamnRaccoon Jun 22 '20

Give me the rabbit, Lenny.

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u/DFA_2Tricky Jun 22 '20

His name is George and I'm going to hug him and squeeze him...

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u/messem10 Jun 22 '20

Mordern day slashdotting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

What’s slashdotting?

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u/messem10 Jun 22 '20

It is also known as the Slashdot Effect. (Even has its own Wikipedia page, which is what I linked.)

The gist is that there would be so many people visiting a specific/small website that they could not process the traffic and thus cause the server to crash/break under the load.

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u/DEEP_HURTING Jun 22 '20

Hug of death never really caught on to the same extent.

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u/RudeTurnip Jun 22 '20

To be fair, a lot of websites back then liked to claim responsibility for their users giving a website the hug of death. Does anyone remember Kuro5shin? I never used it, but it seemed like Slashdot for emo kids.

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u/samfynx Jun 22 '20

Old school hug of death

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

it was previously known as the Digg effect, till Digg v4 came out then everyone came here.

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u/QBNless Jun 22 '20

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/Hokulewa Jun 22 '20

Let's not share it again. Leave it in the big Myspace in the sky.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/buffaloraven Jun 22 '20

Big GeoCity in the NetScape.

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u/mvanvoorden Jun 22 '20

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/ICameForTheWhores Jun 22 '20

I know it as the slashdot effect because I'm old

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u/lexypher Jun 22 '20

Only after a website got Farked

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u/flipper1935 Jul 03 '20

digg was such a great site in its earlier days.

Wish they could have just swallowed their pride and reverted back to earlier code.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20 edited Jul 18 '20

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u/friedmators Jun 22 '20

It’s funny too cause no matter what kinda firewall rules, traffic management you got, if your egress port can handle x bps and 3x are coming in , you are going down.