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To: clyde260
Ummm, what’s DOS?

DOS stands for denial of service attack. In which the goal is not to break into the target server, but to overload it with useless requests, so that it crashes, or its legitimate users are unable to get through.

Example: Perturbed by FR's existence, a moonbat rents a botnet, consisting of thousands or millions of malware-compromised computers scattered around the world, and orders the compromised computers to flood FR with junk requests. Using a botnet to commit DOS is known as DDOS, for distributed denial of service. The bogus requests come from a wide range of IP addresses, not just one or a few, and thus are harder to reject based on IP alone.

More about botnets:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/02/25/nine-bad-botnets-damage/

https://www.secplicity.org/2017/03/07/know-much-costs-rent-iot-botnet/ (IOT stands for internet of things, i.e., the botnet members are not PCs, but rather embedded computers, such as internet-connected thermostats or web cams.)

83 posted on 07/28/2017 10:41:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Perturbed by FR’s existence, a moonbat rents a botnet,


McCain is my #1 Perp suspect ;)


84 posted on 07/28/2017 10:45:17 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: cynwoody

Thanks, been reading up on it, had never heard of it before and I’m sure many here in the same boat.

To re-cap: Another way for the left to stifle free speech/thoughts/ideas/conversation. Think like us or SHUT UP.

Now where have I heard of that before...


137 posted on 07/29/2017 7:13:20 AM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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