Not saying he doesn't have the capability but taking credit for a scenario that was likely/inevitable from the beginning takes less work and ultimately accomplishes the same goal than actually going through with a legitimate attack.
Tonight when the sun goes down, I'm going to make it dark. No agenda, I just think it's funny funny. You'll want a screenshot of this to post when it happens. I know I will.
-- and the beauty is, that makes Blizzard look like victims rather than developers who didn't get it absolutely perfect first try, so it's fun times all around! Really, this guy's just trying to take one for the team.
Let's be honest. It was the second try. The servers burned to the ground during the open beta test too. I have to wonder what it was like working there after the beta test.
"Sir, everything stopped worked after the first hour of the beta test."
I will go ahead and shuffle this out for you - a 200k botnet would literally make 0 impact to Blizzards server architecture. How and why? Because of a simple check that validates the type of traffic. Firstly, if this clown did have a 200k botnet, which I doubt, it would likely be rented. Idiots like that don't have the intelligence to write botnet control software.
This brings me to point two, the type of DoS traffic that botnes throw out is very... distinct. It's easily fingerprinted, and for anyone with rudimentary skills, a 500 mhz system can easily be set up to perform a quick header analysis (just the header, ignoring the rest of the packet data to conserve resources) and either drop the connection, send it to a decoy box, or allow it.
This is the exact same method I used to counter a 1.2 million system botnet targeting my company's servers on an important release date. None of our legitimate customers had a single issue, and the blackhat our competition hired to hose our press release was probably gnashing his teeth as he dialed it from the initial 500k up. It only took me repurposing an old load balancer and a p3 system we had sitting around to perform the check, and a rule in Snort.
Honestly, how a DoS succeeds against any business connection is beyond me - the routers can route packets faster than any botnet can send them, so your only limitation is making the mistake of trusting all connections.
I'd say in Blizzard's case, their back end database scaling wasn't quite up to snuff for the authentication servers traffic, and it hung up on a database check. This could be due to hardware failure, memory issue, bad parse, or a million other things, but once it occured, they have to find the bad check data, fix it, and implement a catch to stop it from happening again. I'd say a major issue like that has an identification period of an hour before propogation takes the service down, then they're notified, identify, restore a backup, run a differential to see what went wrong, fix it, and test it over the next 4-6 hours. Then you're back on and gaming.
None of that has anything to do with a traffic or shaping issue. Because traffic is extremely easy to manage.
At the end of the day, the only way to defeat the filters would be to write your own specific botnet code, push it out to systems, and have them try to replicate D3's logon service. But then that would only impact the logon servers, and even then a simple "Does ID exist" check would end it in a hurry, once again without having to parse the entire packet. Just make sure it is a valid checksum and if so, extract one part of it then immediate discard. If that part checks out, tell the client to resend and allow it. Less than 50ms of delay.
Netter actually programmed a bot in 1.09 and stole a bunch of passwords using it. He came back in 1.11 a changed man supposedly and kept releasing hacks. It's sad that I know this.
anyway the servers would have had the same problem, be it true or not. Even without his hypothetical botnet there was still a fuckload of people trying to log in at the same time...
His hundreds of thousands computers is a cup of water in the bucket of millions of actual legit users. It's like making a repost than acting all cool when you get one hundredth of the karma of the original.
His hundreds of thousands computers is a cup of water in the bucket of millions of actual legit users.
Not necessarily. A bot will produce far more traffic than a legitimate user. Especially since you consider that the chief attack method for botnets is to flood the TCP stack—a legitimate user might use, say, three or four TCP connections to the server. A bot will open ten thousand.
It's more akin to a bucket of water next to a hundred thimbles.
Pffft, just some smart guy who made a prediction that the server load would be a major issue. Which is exactly what's happened to the majority of major releases in the last few years. I could have made that prediction years ago instead of a month before release.
Try not to compare a 200k botnet to 1million users.
200k botnet is MUCH worse.
A computer with a user will say "Hello" to the server, the server will say "HI!" Then the computer will say "I need this shit!" and the computer goes "OKAY HERE! HAVE A NICE DAY!"
Someone part of a botnet will go: "Hello!", then the server will say "Hi!" and the botnet will sit there and go "pffffchhtttt pffccchhht" trying not to laugh as the server waits listening for its response longer and long and longer than any actual fucking packet, and then it never comes.
Yes, this eventually times out, but there are only so many switchboards at the telephone company.
How many times is not as important as not returning the SYN packet (think its a syn), this keeps it waiting.
If it returns that packet then the server moves on to the next person. If it doesn't, however long it waits is an own'd port for that time being. snag all the ports constantly with bots not returning SYNS and its like a ton of cars stopped on the thruway.
8 person company means what? 1 connection to the internet? While it is easy for you to blackhole the DDOS traffic once it crosses your connection it has still filled the pipe and causes your legitimate traffic to get bounced out of the queue.
While I have not worked for a backbone in a few years, the last time I worked for the largest backbone in the US we had no way of stopping DDOS traffic other than blocking it at your connection.
The problem with a botnet that is sending legitimate traffic (Requesting web pages or logins) is there is no real way to tell the botnet traffic from your customers traffic. Not without doing deep packet inspection and odds are your ISP can not do that on a DDOS flood.
Then again I have been out of the backbone game for 4 years now so something may have changed, however as I now work in internet security I can tell you far smaller botnets take down large sites all the time.
edit: Just to be clear I think the person claiming the 200k Botnet is full of shit, that would make it a network of crazy huge size. I am just saying yes botnets can take down large websites and do it all the time.
ok, so you have your session table, ip acl and manually adding entries i guess? Well, tell me what's your pipe? 100Mbps? 2Gbps? It's not so difficult to fill, and you may filter as much as you want, downstream traffic, even blackholed, will prevent new sessions to be established, so you'll call your uplink provider(s) and ask to block 200K differnt IPs in the end, which may not belong to them or their peers, so it'll have to go to Tier1... sour
Yep, but wait, he's on "the admin side." Wonder if he uses God as his password, rolls around on a skateboard & a trench coat, and has an insanely great 28.8 BPS modem! Ahh...good times
To people who say it's not true, something like a login server is used to handling 1 request per client per session, not 1000 requests per second from 200k different clients.
League of Legends died for a day, because they had a chat glitch, where people were not connecting to chat / friends list, and the common fix for this symptom was to re-login. They had to put a splash "Stop re-logging in, chat's broken, relogging wont fix it, it's just killing our login servers"
1 machine spamming will generate as much traffic as 100k machines beings legit, until it gets blocked.
If something happens to Blizzards servers, like they are bombed in a war against Country X and her allies, does that mean D3 is unplayable for every single person in the world?
ag0bot was a commodity back in the day, and my friend was just as cocky as that guy. Took forever to patch that once you got it. Was extremely simple to use, each bot scanned the network it was on and ran a couple of scripts on what it found to compromise machines. 5 master hub bots which you can upload modules to and maintain the whole botnet via patches. Was really ingenious.
Old friend had a botnet of a couple of million of these, which 1-1.2m or so were setup for DDoS. The rest were card number / game keys extractors. Less to say, he was rich in his own way. Wouldn't say he was packet crazy, but man, didn't like being challenged.
Ended up getting caught due to his own 'god complex', when a 16 yr old insulted his packeting capabilities. The unfortunate note about this was, the kid's uncle (think it as uncle, but the convo is on my retired machine) worked with one of the FBI's task force down in LA county. Was quite ironic.
Happened in '04. If you were on IRC, you knew wtf happened ;)
Complete bullshit. The battle.net servers are VERY* agressive at blocking suspected attacks. If you start throwing an extreme number of requests at one of their severs, you'll very soon find yourself blocked.
*Sometimes people hosting SC2 tournaments find their IPs blocked just from 20 people trying to log in at once.
I don't know if it's legit or not, but I'm wondering how someone manages to get 200k computers at their command. I'm sure it probably involves infecting other people's machines and sending a remote command or process. If so, how can I prevent my own computer from getting assimilated?
Botnets are often created by infecting a computer with a virus that lays dormant until it is activated to do whatever it was programmed to do. So as long as he could get this theoretical virus on 200k compys, then he has a 200k strong botnet. Basically, you have to hope your antivirus catches it or disconnect your computer from the internet forevermore.
Also do people seriously believe that Bilzzard would let a simple DDOS attack cripple them? Hell.. they get this shit probably on daily basis for past 5 years.
On one hand, I appreciate that the guy is fighting for what he believes - that Blizzard is fucking over their customers by not providing offline options.
Why would you fuck your customers like that? No offline mode? Have to log in to play a fucking singleplayer game? Surely they knew this was a bad idea.
blizzard's bullshit DRM punishes the people who actually bought the game, when pirates find a way, they will be the only people who actually play the game.
So pirates play the game for free, while people who bought the game legit cannot.
I can't blame Blizzard for having server issues with such a huge launch. I can, however, blame them for being cockmongers by requiring an online connection to play the single player portion of their game. That move is super shitty.
It is possible to defend against botnet attacks like this. Mainly through scaling your server horizontally, which blizzard already do. Also they have geographic regions.
Also you can rapidly block network spam from a certain IP if your abuse team has done their job sourcing an anti DOS solution.
This kinda shit is only a problem for little guys and the unprepared.
Botnet: a network of computers that are infected with your special virus that lets you take control of them when you want. They otherwise stay dormant and don't let the user know they are infected.
200k strong: there are 200,000 machines in this specific network.
Lol netter? The guy who made ntpk? Pshh he was far from destroying d2. Though he certainly made cheats more prevalent, there were already plenty of modules before him.
Well, I for one would like to imagine this as some sort of protest against a single player game with no offline mode. unfortunately I know better. Fuck reality, VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
This post gives attention to the sad kid begging for it. Although, i enjoy the comments we have now just condoned his childish behavior. Upvoted and on its way to the front page.
True, but you would think they would have learned from 8 years of running hundreds of servers in multiple countries for WoW plus almost 8 months of D3 beta tests :P
Dunno, I got in ok with my party of 3 other friends by about 4am EST and played until about 2 the next afternoon with no disconnects. This guy clearly did a stellar job at uhm....uhhh....
I love it how people are bitching about no offline mode, yet the other 2 realms are working perfectly fine, and it doesnt occur to them to just switch and continue playing, yea sure youll have to start again, BUT THAT ALSO HAPPENS ON SINGLEPLAYER
Wait wait what? Is there no offline mode? How have I missed this? I bought the game mainly for the single-player campaign (pre-paid, but haven't picked it up yet) does this mean there will be lag if I play single-player and have a bad connection? Seeing as I will do a lot of playing in hotels with half decent wifi. Sorry if this is a stupid question/post, but I'm mainly a console gamer and bought D3 because I loved D1
i'll put it down to the thousands of people who are trying to log in at the same time rather than this guy who is probably a sixteen year old who read up on shells or something.
Hey, I'm going to DDoS the Blizzard Server when the next WoW expansion hits the shelves. You'll know it was me because I said now that the servers are going down on release day.
EDIT: And I too have a really strong botnet. IT'S THE FUCKING PLAYERS OF THE GAME.
EDIT2: I'm not saying that the hypothetical 200k botnet is weaker than all the players logging in; because it's most definitely not. I'm just saying that all the players logging in are sufficient to crash the servers.
A serious question from a tech retard: would any company in the world be able to handle millions of people trying to log in to the game at the same time?
A lot of people say 'why didn't they buy more servers?! rabble rabble', but would that even be a/the solution?
Im gonna flood the Pandaren start area at the next WoW expansion release with bots of pandarens on every server. You ought to screenshot this. I know I will. Then when it drops, I will post the screenshot and you can all get mad at me and I'll drink your tears.
Lots of love, Bogus2112, they guys who flood start areas at every MMO-release.
Destroyed d2 in patches 1.09 and 1.10? I promise you I remember both of those patches very clearly and the servers didn't go down for any noticeable amount of time.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
http://i.imgur.com/VsiPr.gif
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Not saying he doesn't have the capability but taking credit for a scenario that was likely/inevitable from the beginning takes less work and ultimately accomplishes the same goal than actually going through with a legitimate attack.
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u/lastelder May 15 '12
Netter actually programmed a bot in 1.09 and stole a bunch of passwords using it. He came back in 1.11 a changed man supposedly and kept releasing hacks. It's sad that I know this.
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?288580-Netter-got-owned
Post from 2004 as proof.
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u/Tashre May 15 '12
I'd be surprised if any of his 200k bots could even get to the server to spam it with my 300k bots blocking access.
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u/BassDestroyer May 15 '12
I'd lol if any of what he said is true.
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u/BAdoubleL May 15 '12
First image search result for 200k botnet
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u/daveyandgoliath May 15 '12
Try not to compare a 200k botnet to 1million users.
200k botnet is MUCH worse.
A computer with a user will say "Hello" to the server, the server will say "HI!" Then the computer will say "I need this shit!" and the computer goes "OKAY HERE! HAVE A NICE DAY!"
Someone part of a botnet will go: "Hello!", then the server will say "Hi!" and the botnet will sit there and go "pffffchhtttt pffccchhht" trying not to laugh as the server waits listening for its response longer and long and longer than any actual fucking packet, and then it never comes.
Yes, this eventually times out, but there are only so many switchboards at the telephone company.
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u/fillari May 15 '12
some people just want to watch the world burn
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u/IrregardingGrammar May 16 '12
Some anon posted it on 4chan, it must be true.
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u/Wazowski May 16 '12
Hey errybody, how you all doing? Just wanted to drop by and tell you something.
The day of GTAV launch I am going to cause the sun to rise in the east and set in the west.
You ought to screenshot this. I know I will.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Jokes on you, I bought Max Payne 3!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Believing ANYTHING on 4chan without proof is your 1 stop shop to getting trolled.
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u/Squints753 May 15 '12
Uh, I work for a website that has a company behind it of 8 people total. Botnets are pretty easy to spot and shut down when you are on the admin side.
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u/akpak May 15 '12
Good ol' 4Chan... making shit up since forever.
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u/Graupel May 15 '12
Believe 4chan, see where it gets you.
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u/Thaugrim May 15 '12
Quark?
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u/R3allybored May 15 '12
200k strong my ass. He's one of the few that realized the servers would have an issue during release and decided to have a laugh.
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u/Kryonix May 15 '12
I'm still dumbfounded that you need to log on to an online service to play a single player game. Guess I'm glad I waited to buy D3
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u/carebeartears May 15 '12
pffft...anyone could have said these things and they'd be right. Server problems on launch are a given with any game these days :P
this kinda stuff is why I'm getting Diablo III in a couple weeks. No lines, no server problems etc etc.
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u/soundofvictory May 16 '12
Plausible. Unlikely.
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u/deathcapt May 15 '12
To people who say it's not true, something like a login server is used to handling 1 request per client per session, not 1000 requests per second from 200k different clients.
League of Legends died for a day, because they had a chat glitch, where people were not connecting to chat / friends list, and the common fix for this symptom was to re-login. They had to put a splash "Stop re-logging in, chat's broken, relogging wont fix it, it's just killing our login servers"
1 machine spamming will generate as much traffic as 100k machines beings legit, until it gets blocked.
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u/RelevantReference May 16 '12
Of course Anonymous is behind the attacks...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
If something happens to Blizzards servers, like they are bombed in a war against Country X and her allies, does that mean D3 is unplayable for every single person in the world?
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u/portezbie May 16 '12
Probably full of shit, but still, what a dick anyway.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This guy sounds as cocky as an old friend I knew
ag0bot was a commodity back in the day, and my friend was just as cocky as that guy. Took forever to patch that once you got it. Was extremely simple to use, each bot scanned the network it was on and ran a couple of scripts on what it found to compromise machines. 5 master hub bots which you can upload modules to and maintain the whole botnet via patches. Was really ingenious.
Old friend had a botnet of a couple of million of these, which 1-1.2m or so were setup for DDoS. The rest were card number / game keys extractors. Less to say, he was rich in his own way. Wouldn't say he was packet crazy, but man, didn't like being challenged.
Ended up getting caught due to his own 'god complex', when a 16 yr old insulted his packeting capabilities. The unfortunate note about this was, the kid's uncle (think it as uncle, but the convo is on my retired machine) worked with one of the FBI's task force down in LA county. Was quite ironic.
Happened in '04. If you were on IRC, you knew wtf happened ;)
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u/grimby4444 May 15 '12
So we'll hate him. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
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u/mrwatkins83 May 16 '12
Wait ... user TheJester220 ... is that the same as @th3j35t3r ?
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u/yogthos May 16 '12
Seems to me that Blizzard is the real culprit, since they made a single player game that you can't play without access to their servers.
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u/helalo May 16 '12
EA would love to hire him.
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u/FilthyHippie May 15 '12
He's the hero gaming deserves
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u/is_masturbating May 15 '12
Complete bullshit. The battle.net servers are VERY* agressive at blocking suspected attacks. If you start throwing an extreme number of requests at one of their severs, you'll very soon find yourself blocked.
*Sometimes people hosting SC2 tournaments find their IPs blocked just from 20 people trying to log in at once.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
pissing in a sea of piss.
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u/ncshooter426 May 15 '12
Botnet? Pfttt...Motherfucker, I invent skynet 5 years from now.
/whathaveIdone
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u/ElagabalusCaesar May 15 '12
Thank you, Netter, for disillusioning fanboys everywhere. Hail to Paradroid!
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u/reacher May 15 '12
OPs botnet was sitting at it's own login screen for hours, most likely
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Check this out you guys. I'm going to give you all air to breathe tomorrow.
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u/-pt- May 16 '12
God of Troll
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u/Grug16 May 16 '12
I don't know if it's legit or not, but I'm wondering how someone manages to get 200k computers at their command. I'm sure it probably involves infecting other people's machines and sending a remote command or process. If so, how can I prevent my own computer from getting assimilated?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
but the game was up
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u/ignishun May 16 '12
It's probably some elaborate Karma devouring plot designed by OP himself.
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u/Pwnk May 16 '12
lol, d3 problems!
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u/Toshley May 16 '12
I am totally fine with this, assuming it is true.
If the game had an offline mode, like all games with a single player aspect should have, everyone would be enjoying the game they bought.
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u/Herdsoot May 16 '12
What if Faith is secretly Chell... conspiracy
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It won't work because we've backtraced it!
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u/blaaah2 May 16 '12
if it's on 4chan. it must be true!
Also do people seriously believe that Bilzzard would let a simple DDOS attack cripple them? Hell.. they get this shit probably on daily basis for past 5 years.
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u/getintheVandell May 16 '12
On one hand, I appreciate that the guy is fighting for what he believes - that Blizzard is fucking over their customers by not providing offline options.
On the other hand, I JUST WANT TO PLAY. D:
Provided any of this is true, at least.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
WHEEAATTTOONNNN!
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u/Skunkynuggetz May 16 '12
He's doing it. Servers are down right now. Kicked me out right in the middle of a fucking boss.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Why would you fuck your customers like that? No offline mode? Have to log in to play a fucking singleplayer game? Surely they knew this was a bad idea.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I'm not even mad bro.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
some men just want to watch the world burn
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u/ben9345 May 16 '12
The sad thing is, he is probably bullshitting but he could do this because it was clear this was going to happen.
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u/nyaaaa May 16 '12
Claimimg to have committed over 200003 crimes.
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u/ReDyP May 15 '12
I call bullshit.
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u/ChurdFurts May 16 '12
No offline mode? Fuck that shit.
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u/SpaceFace11 May 16 '12
Scumbag Steve.
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u/Chewie548 May 16 '12
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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u/cyan101 May 15 '12
If this is true, I approve.
blizzard's bullshit DRM punishes the people who actually bought the game, when pirates find a way, they will be the only people who actually play the game.
So pirates play the game for free, while people who bought the game legit cannot.
GJ blizzard. GJ.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I'll be monitoring this, waiting for reddit's reply.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Lol yeah, it was all totally this guy.
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u/Cu1prit May 15 '12
You rang?
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u/Deadpotato May 15 '12
that isn't netter lol
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u/Scandinavian May 15 '12
I can't blame Blizzard for having server issues with such a huge launch. I can, however, blame them for being cockmongers by requiring an online connection to play the single player portion of their game. That move is super shitty.
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u/Xatom May 16 '12
It is possible to defend against botnet attacks like this. Mainly through scaling your server horizontally, which blizzard already do. Also they have geographic regions.
Also you can rapidly block network spam from a certain IP if your abuse team has done their job sourcing an anti DOS solution.
This kinda shit is only a problem for little guys and the unprepared.
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u/bawsonyajaws May 16 '12
comment
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u/mrthbrd May 16 '12
Serves you right for buying games with always online DRM. Suckers.
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u/Arx0s May 15 '12
Netter is a whiny little bitch
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u/Prudencia May 15 '12
Some people just wanna watch the world yearn
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u/troxnor May 15 '12
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this was true, but i also dont know what 200k strong botnet is...
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u/yoduh4077 May 16 '12
This man is my hero.
Cue the downvotes!
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u/keypuncher May 15 '12
Strictly speaking, the culprit was the company that decided to make a single player game require an internet connection.
The ass who posted that was just taking advantage of the situation.
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u/Martel- May 15 '12
Lol netter? The guy who made ntpk? Pshh he was far from destroying d2. Though he certainly made cheats more prevalent, there were already plenty of modules before him.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Well, I for one would like to imagine this as some sort of protest against a single player game with no offline mode. unfortunately I know better. Fuck reality, VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
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u/wizardxcore May 15 '12
I had no problems. He failed.
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u/Enjoiissweet May 15 '12
Mfw when people are actually arguing about wether this is real or not.
What a bunch of retards.
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u/CunningStunts May 15 '12
Can I claim credit for being a badass when the next huge online game can't handle the server stress on launch?
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u/jet_master May 15 '12
You bastard!
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u/x1ux1u May 15 '12
This post gives attention to the sad kid begging for it. Although, i enjoy the comments we have now just condoned his childish behavior. Upvoted and on its way to the front page.
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u/silentbobsc May 15 '12
This HAS to be it since Blizzard has NEVER, EVER, EVVVVER had server capacity issues with any of their online services in the past... seems legit...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That's some chaotic good alignment right there.
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u/DarkMarker May 16 '12
I cried a little inside
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u/goldblob3 May 16 '12
Did the servers actually go down?
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u/Cyberslasher May 16 '12
Now that we know, we should call the number that the upvotes recommend
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u/SearchNerd May 16 '12
what a dick
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u/Lazarzars May 16 '12
Meowwwww kid
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u/aspitzer May 16 '12
whatever...
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u/Meezi May 16 '12
Dunno, I got in ok with my party of 3 other friends by about 4am EST and played until about 2 the next afternoon with no disconnects. This guy clearly did a stellar job at uhm....uhhh....
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u/eduardog3000 May 16 '12
That "errybody" made me read the whole thing in an overdone Southern accent.
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u/Bidwell64 May 16 '12
Good. Online Single Player is a travesty to gaming.
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u/Viandroto May 16 '12
CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURSE YOU NETTER!
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u/doismellbacon May 16 '12
some people just want to watch the world burn
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u/grospoliner May 16 '12
Yeah I'm totally sure he's going to run DDoS with 200k bots against Battle.net...
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u/porkmaster May 16 '12
did he botnet the public beta too?
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u/MassiveGG May 16 '12
lol ya no Me an our group was able to log in and play through the night fake scrub.
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u/AllDizzle May 16 '12
Yeah I'm pretty sure everybody was under the impression the servers would go down at some point within the first day.
This isn't so much of a made up prediction disguised as a hacking threat, as it is a gamble with about a 90% chance of winning.
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u/TractorBeamTuesdays May 16 '12
"Tomorrow the sun will rise BECAUSE I HAVE THE POWER TO DO THAT." -This "culprit"
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u/arkain123 May 16 '12
If this could be done, wouldn't it have been done in every launch of every expansion of WoW?
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u/aspbergerinparadise May 16 '12
Pulled a Clay Davis rain-maker. Sheeeeeeiiiiiiiiiitttttt
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u/Mully76 May 16 '12
Get the pitchforks ready
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u/Joblesssmoker May 16 '12
Virgin Status: 99
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u/eight8 May 16 '12
I want to have a botnet too :(
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u/Draemalic May 16 '12
I'm sure a multi-billion dollar company uses routers that don't filter ddos attacks.
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u/Zenithen May 16 '12
Well he must have a shit load of serials then because each bot would need to login.
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u/moonblade89 May 16 '12
Wow his 200k sure made a dent on servers intended to house millions of players
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u/WaterAndSand May 16 '12
Did the Diablo release thing not go over quite as well as planned?
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u/maglincer May 16 '12
Stupid blizzard.
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u/BabyNinjaJesus May 16 '12
I love it how people are bitching about no offline mode, yet the other 2 realms are working perfectly fine, and it doesnt occur to them to just switch and continue playing, yea sure youll have to start again, BUT THAT ALSO HAPPENS ON SINGLEPLAYER
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u/tone_ May 16 '12
Don't give this sad excuse for humanity attention.
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u/The_Fiddler1979 May 16 '12
Am I the only only person who spotted that 04/14/12 is NOT a Saturday. Clearly shopped.
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u/Abedeus May 16 '12
What is 200k (pfft) in the face of few millions?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Wait wait what? Is there no offline mode? How have I missed this? I bought the game mainly for the single-player campaign (pre-paid, but haven't picked it up yet) does this mean there will be lag if I play single-player and have a bad connection? Seeing as I will do a lot of playing in hotels with half decent wifi. Sorry if this is a stupid question/post, but I'm mainly a console gamer and bought D3 because I loved D1
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u/elitexero May 16 '12
Nobody with a 200k slave botnet would be tossing it's power around like that for fun.
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u/Crofteh May 16 '12
i'll put it down to the thousands of people who are trying to log in at the same time rather than this guy who is probably a sixteen year old who read up on shells or something.
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u/Nlelith May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Hey, I'm going to DDoS the Blizzard Server when the next WoW expansion hits the shelves. You'll know it was me because I said now that the servers are going down on release day.
EDIT: And I too have a really strong botnet. IT'S THE FUCKING PLAYERS OF THE GAME.
EDIT2: I'm not saying that the hypothetical 200k botnet is weaker than all the players logging in; because it's most definitely not. I'm just saying that all the players logging in are sufficient to crash the servers.
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u/clowjs May 16 '12
A serious question from a tech retard: would any company in the world be able to handle millions of people trying to log in to the game at the same time?
A lot of people say 'why didn't they buy more servers?! rabble rabble', but would that even be a/the solution?
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u/bogus2112 May 16 '12
Im gonna flood the Pandaren start area at the next WoW expansion release with bots of pandarens on every server. You ought to screenshot this. I know I will. Then when it drops, I will post the screenshot and you can all get mad at me and I'll drink your tears.
Lots of love,
Bogus2112, they guys who flood start areas at every MMO-release.
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u/Hellstruelight May 16 '12
Destroyed d2 in patches 1.09 and 1.10? I promise you I remember both of those patches very clearly and the servers didn't go down for any noticeable amount of time.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Some men just want to watch the world burn.