Postmortem Regarding mid-September downtime

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Partly it's pretty difficult to tie someone definitively to a DDoS which is why cowards like it as a way of attacking something, and partly because it's been so pathetically ineffectual that most users haven't even noticed it.
It still astounds me how pissy Sammy still is over the site.

Anyone know if he's ever tried DDoSing whatever chan site /baph/ is on? Or is it just KF he wants to target?
 
Because watching him fail and stew in his own impotence while he brags on the Internet about being the harbinger of the Farms' reckoning is hilarious.

Maybe if he hadn't spent all that money trying to sue some dude for saying he buggers little boys, he'd have enough to fund his illegal DDoS.
 
Remind me again why no one's tried to stop his bullshit?
It's funny to watch a lolcow burn their limited money supply for no real effect. I don't have all the details of the infrastructure and attack but by spending money on a service to mitigate it would be an economic win for him.
 
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He keeps going on the old baph boards to beg for money for his DDoS and he used to pretend to be baph when attacking us because he thinks they're just the newer, spookier version of anonymous.

It should be mentioned that these posts always appear on the @Null /cow/ thread as well.

suffice it to say that the donation address shown has received two inputs in it's lifetime totaling a stunning ~400 USD counter value.
very success! much bankroll!
 
It still astounds me how pissy Sammy still is over the site.

He's still coming after all these years. So there must be absolutely nothing else in his life to give it meaning. Waiting all month for his welfare cheque to come in, so he can pay for a DDOS attack to temporarily disrupt this website for bit. Then make some posts somewhere to pretend he is an elite crew of hackers that can't be stopped. When in reality he isn't even doing anything, he's just paying someone to flood the site with traffic.

He'll then go back to his empty flat with his empty life. No job, no partner, no propects, no ambitions. Just a never ending hatred of Null and KiwiFarms because they dared to point out his behaviour. I'd call it sad but it's far, far beyond that now.
 
He's still coming after all these years. So there must be absolutely nothing else in his life to give it meaning. Waiting all month for his welfare cheque to come in, so he can pay for a DDOS attack to temporarily disrupt this website for bit. Then make some posts somewhere to pretend he is an elite crew of hackers that can't be stopped. When in reality he isn't even doing anything, he's just paying someone to flood the site with traffic.

He'll then go back to his empty flat with his empty life. No job, no partner, no propects, no ambitions. Just a never ending hatred of Null and KiwiFarms because they dared to point out his behaviour. I'd call it sad but it's far, far beyond that now.

What's truly strange is that Sam's own fucking hubris is the reason he got covered in the first place, and his coverage basically amounts to being one of the world's longest Autism Cascades - a rare lolcow event in which a lolcow fucks up, tries to mitigate or bury their fuck-up, and in turn, fucks up again, leading to them trying to mitigate or bury that fuck-up, and turning into what is, essentially, a self-sustaining reaction of Autism.

To writ:

* He adopted this current DDOS tactic because absolutely nothing else has worked at stopping the Farms so far. It's a desperate attempt to hold onto what shreds of his initial win he originally had.

* He had support previously, but the Autistic Legion of Doom basically broke up because Sam was willing to throw them under the bus to save his own ass, by pushing too hard after his near-victory and essentially going into the area of criminally prosecutable offenses - in this case, going after the families of multiple staffers and users in an attempt to blackmail them into silence - leading to him and Oliver facing down the Donny Long dick of the law, when they sold him out to try to save their own asses.

* He had previously actually defeated the Farms, only for he and Oliver to ruin that win by essentially demanding blackmail material over this entire forum in an attempt to keep it from ever being remade. He was unsatisfied with the one victory virtually every Lolcow dreams of. He got too greedy, and in turn, destroyed one of the only victories he ever had, which inevitably didn't avail him all that much in the long run other than guarantee that everyone on this forum would see to him being chronicled until the end of the Internet.

* Prior to this, he'd been going after the Farms' hosts and methods of finance for months, using multiple members of the Autistic Legion of Doom to fight an Autistic proxy war on us. He escalated in this case because his previous attempts to get hosts to drop us didn't really work.

* He first started sperging against us because we covered his various misdeeds in detail and Sam is willing to nurse a grudge literally forever if that happens.

* Of course, what led to Sam getting a thread in the first place was attempting to utilize Dynastia against KIA, who had previously told him to fuck off with his personal army requests and attempts to harass Randi Harper, who made fun of his ass. As has always been said, the best way to ensure Dyne gives you a thorough dicking is to try to get him to do something he has no interest in, so when the predictable happened only Sam was surprised.

* He first started going after Randi in an attempt to be relevant by latching onto Gamergate, where he almost immediately got told to fuck off by hashtag supporters by advocating for escalation against multiple members of the clique, essentially playing into the hands of their narrative, which as a whole GGers weren't keen on doing. In a time when the Gawker boycott was still going strong, Sam was focused on punishing Quinn and company.

* He first latched onto Gamergate because his previous reputation had been permanently marred by similar autistic behavior in politics and online.

It just keeps snowballing with this guy, like a Katamari through a special-needs school. Every time he wins on some basic level, he undermines it by fucking up with gusto. Every time he tries to mitigate his fuck-ups, he fucks up worse. He may be the single most self-destructive person we cover other than maybe Jake Alley.
 
Maybe I just missed it in your post, but how exactly did he manage to do that? What happened before he let the victory go to his head and started trying to blackmail and dox everyone? Your post seemed to mostly just cover what happened after that.

You weren't here for it. It was in 2016.

Vordrak did the most despicable thing humanly possible: He started actively going after Null's family, friends, and pretty much everyone who was even tangentially involved in his life. Vordrak threatened to ruin them, harassed them at their jobs, spread slander about every single one of them, and overstepped whatever line of good taste you possibly could have conceived of. Null was not alone, either: Oliver and several other members of the Autistic Legion of Doom tried similar scorched-earth tactics against everyone from Wiki staffers to the mods of minor subforums. Eventually, Vordrak pushed things too far: Null shut down the board entirely, and for some time, it looked like Vordy had won. For a while, the Farms went dark, and Lolcows around the internet rejoiced because the terrible enemy was now dead.

....But Autism will never eternal lie, and the Farms merely shutting its doors was not good enough for Vordrak. Vordrak wanted to ensure that not only was the Farms down, but that he could stop it from coming back. He was demanding Null, among other things, turn over the user database for the entire forum, destroy all thread backups, and publicly apologize for his offenses against him. Sam wanted nothing less than the fucking site fucking gone, and more importantly, go nuclear against anyone who tried to fork it.

The thing is, there's only so far you can push a man. When he demanded capitulation from Null as a condition to stop his attacks against Null's family, Oliver at the time was stepping up his offensives against the other mods and admins, myself and several others included. Whatever Null's flaws may be as an administrator, he was not about to negotiate further with an honest-to-god terrorist, and so Null cut all ties with his old life and went walkabout.

The Farms came back online soonafter. Had he held back, and just been satisfied with the Farms getting deleted, he'd probably have held onto a victory the likes of which the Rat King still fantasizes about for at least another few months. Unfortunately for him, Null is a man of principle and has now set things up that even were Vordrak to arrange for an assassin to flat-out murder him, the Farms would stay up.
 
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I think we're missing out on an opportunity here, guys. We should cut out the middle man and get paid to "DDoS" ourselves. Just gotta take the website offline for 10 seconds oncea week and call it an easy $300.

Fancy Bear will call your idea and be making of raise for another $300 to jackpot: http://botlab.io/can-ddos-attacks-trigger-ads-and-generate-revenue/

Excerpt:
There are two other factors that have to be considered in respect to some DDoS attacks having the capacity to trigger ads.

1) DDoS solutions are widely available and could be used to generate massive quantities of fake traffic to sites where ads generate revenue

2) A black hat marketer / spamsite owner could drive massive quantities of traffic to their site by any means, and in case questioned about it, blame a DDoS attack

In short summary, DDoS attacks have the potential for actually generating traffic, and the potential for “plausible deniability” with just a pretense of a supposed attack.
 
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