BING'S FAULT.
Posted on 08/30/2009 2:02:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May, according to police.
-The main culprit in the case, a 23-year-old cotton factory worker surnamed Bing, had bought a set of "private servers" and offered online games and advertising services on them, the statement said. Private servers are usually used to run emulated versions of popular online games like World of Warcraft. Their operators are often unlicensed by the game designers but make money on subscription fees or advertising.
Bing made little profit from his venture, partly because rival private server operators often attacked his servers, the police statement said. The assaults were likely DDOS attacks, in which a large group of malware-infected PCs is directed to contact a target server at once, overwhelming it with requests for information and leaving it paralyzed.
Bing and a technical assistant decided to retaliate and spent 280,000 yuan (US$41,000) to rent 81 servers used specifically for attacking private servers, the statement said. But the assistant's abilities were "not specialized" and his attacks were ineffective, said the statement. The pair then searched online for help and asked a technician in eastern Zhejiang province to design a program that could conduct the attack.
Bing's assistant booted up the program and it directly attacked DNSPod, a move that would paralyze the DNS servers used by many rival operators of private servers, but would also affect a large number of other Internet companies served by DNSPod, the statement said.
(Excerpt) Read more at networkworld.com ...
Remarkable.
Isn't that around the time the Microsoft Search Engine of the same name went online?
Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmm?"
BING'S FAULT.
I was thinking the same thing. That's some pretty sizable savings or disposable income for ANY 23-year old.
He may also have raised funds from his parents and friends. These folks are very entrepreneurial. Not everyone succeeds, but an outsized number do place bets on building their own businesses. It makes many (failed entrepreneurs) good employees, as they understand the bottom line. It's hard to figure out where this entrepreneurial bug comes from, given that Imperial Chinese history is the history of state-owned monopolies in many major industries. Maybe it's to do with the well-known East Asian (Oriental) proclivity for gambling. Most lose, but so many gamble that there are a lot of winners.
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