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  24. <h1>DDoS Attack November 2015</h1>
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  26. 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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  28. 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.
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  30. Around the 10th of November 2015, owner of Neocities, <a href="people_kyle_drake.html">Kyle Drake</a> 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".
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  32. As a direct result, the sender DDoSed Neocities, however, neocities.org handled the DDoS just fine. At the same time, Kyle watched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross" target="_blank">Bob Ross</a>, and went to sleep.
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  34. The next day, Kyle Drake would recount this event on his Twitter account by writing;
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  37. Neocities got a DDoS ransom. I replied "fuck off". They DDoSed, our mitigation handled it. I watched Bob Ross and went to sleep.</br>
  38. #cyberpunk</tt></blockquote>
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  40. Who the attacker was, why they wanted to attack Neocities, and even what the ransom was is still unknown.
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  46. I. one</br>
  47. <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/664313172636008448" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/664313172636008448</a> [<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180703183216/https://twitter.com/kyledrake/status/664313172636008448" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>]
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  49. II. Denial-of-service attack on Wikipedia</br>
  50. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack</a>
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  52. This page was last updated: 03/07/2018 @ 19:32
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