EVE General Discussion

I'm just going to put this here for all the people who seem confused.

The point of DDoS is that the attack traffic looks like it's coming from legit sources.

If it were obvious and focused and coming from a single source, it would be DoS, and that would be relatively preventable.

DDoS comes from real people's machines who have every reason to be trusted as IP traffic. Those people's machines have been compromised, and are therefore able to be commanded to perform DoS attacks.

Can you make absolutely sure that you can't be DDoS'd? Yes. You can. You can unplug your network cables and just let your servers go to town. But, oh wait, that means that no one can get to your servers. No one. Not even you.

Are there companies who promise to protect you from these attacks? Yes. There are. They are mostly the same companies who promise to protect you from malware and adware on your personal machines and fail miserably at it unless you let their software basically cripple your network interactions--which, again, isn't something CCP or any other company hosting a web application can allow.

You don't want CCP to be overzealous about blocking network traffic. You really don't. Many real players would get blocked if CCP did what it would take to block all possible DDoS attack vectors.

Network security for this kind of application is a balancing act. Sometimes things fall over. That's part of the gig.

Major companies with a hundred times the resources CCP has get knocked over by these kinds of shenanigans. Sony got blasted a couple of years ago. Hell, in 2011 right after lulzsec hacked playstation network--covering with a DDoS --and stole millions of credit cards, CCP got hit by them as well.

So before you go off on your CCP sucks at everything bull****, remember that they have dealt with this in the past, and they knew enough to know when they were getting several types of attacks from different vectors at once and knew when to shut down and when to stick it out.

This is not an ideal situation for anyone. Duh. No one likes it when EvE is going down like a hooker.

But this is not incompetence, and it's not because CCP doesn't know what it's doing. In my experience, CCP is damn good at handling these situations. I've never had credit card info stolen from CCP.

Can't say the same about Sony or Target or Apple or Microsoft.

Hey. It's the price we pay for being so cool. Thousands of games don't get the attention of the dweebs who pull this stunt. We do 'cause we're in the top five. (Top ONE if you ask me.) Some things you just have to endure, like when herds of wild females would tear off the Beatles' clothes. It just comes with the territory.

It would help if those among us would NOT idolize and lionize the punks who think they're hackers,
when they're just common vandals. They're certainly not digital rebels and could never be heroes.
And, whose side did you say you're on?

Did we annex iceland?

Why?

To harness volcanic power once the oil runs out.