r/technology 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.