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<h1>DDoS Attack (2015-11)</h1>
In a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack), the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single source.
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A DoS or DDoS attack is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door of a shop, making it hard for legitimate customers to enter, disrupting trade.</p>
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Around the 2015-11-10, owner of Neocities, Kyle Drake received a Denial-of-service attack ransom. Instead of caving in and bowing down to the publicly unknown ransom, Kyle Drake replied to the sender by telling them to "fuck off".</p>
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As a direct result, the sender DDoSed Neocities, however, neocities.org handled the DDoS just fine. At the same time, Kyle watched Bob Ross and went to sleep.</p>
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The next day, Kyle Drake would recount this event on his Twitter account by writing;</p>
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<blockquote><tt>
    Neocities got a DDoS ransom. I replied "fuck off". They DDoSed, our mitigation handled it. I watched Bob Ross and went to sleep. #cyberpunk
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Who the attacker was, why they wanted to attack Neocities, and even what the ransom was is still unknown.</p>
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<h2>References</h2>
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  <li><a href="https://thewikion.neocities.org/wiki/ddos_attack_november_2015.html">Original wiki article about this subject</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/664313172636008448">Neocities got a DDoS ransom. I replied "fuck off". They DDoSed, our mitigation handled it. I watched Bob Ross and went to sleep. #cyberpunk</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">Denial-of-service attack on Wikipedia</a></li>
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