Do you remember those attacks done to biggest IRC network circa 2001? reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- veants · 2018-06-30 19:31 First of all, hi everybody, I'm pretty new to Reddit and just came across that subreddit. I hope you don't mind this kind of subject. And sorry for some bad English, it's not my primary tongue. Yesterday it came back to my mind and I was thinking, can we, today, look at how things happened and see who took advantage of the chaos generated by those attacks. It's a long time ago (circa 2001), I recall that Undernet has been greatly disturbed, the X bot has been absent for months. From then the community began to decline in favor of the "modern" social networks like linkedin (2002), Hi5 (2003), FB(2004) and many others. Some people theorize it's just vandal[s], but I'm really not sure about that. It was well organised, the scale was pretty big and it was happening for months before it became critical. I find it a bit too much for a simple vandal but that's just my opinion. That's what I'd like to discuss, It still could be a simple vandal with good computer skills but I'm more inclined to think the people who did that had more serious motives than just disturbing. In addition of it they covered their trace very well. As far as I know, they/he haven't got caught. Today, I see how internet has changed since those days "of glory". A lot of freedom, absence of censorship like we have today, it was a good time. According to you or your "theory", Who (no personal information here) do you think/know have done that and what was the motives behind? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2018-07-01 02:17 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- veants · 2018-07-01 02:34 Thanks for clarifying, I was not implying a "conspiracy" either btw, I was questioning the common idea where it's just vandal. I mean, gitHub have recently been attacked with huge ddos attacks and I haven't heard about vandals but china. I mean, if I had, being a PITA, as the only motive, I'm not really going to care. But if there money or political ideas somewhere I'd care much more. So to me, simple vandals would be a little silly, but I know there are some people with deep psychological problems out there as well. It has also been suggested more than once that some DDOS attacks targeting one institution have been made by one of its competitors. [That's](https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450414239/Businesses- blame-rivals-for-DDoS-attacks) just one example I just googled. I was more suggesting something along those lines. Not conspiracy.. of course not.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tobsn · 2018-07-01 04:49 TCL and what’s his name... they wrote blitzkrieg and then stacheldraht and attacked everything... ebay etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- veants · 2018-07-02 06:12 Mixter, but these guys (or people who used their tools) were targeting big corporation websites Yahoo!, Buy.com, eBay, Amazon, E-Trade, MSN.com, Dell, ZDNet and CNN.