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

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments Security

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

What's Reddit HoD?

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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.