Fuck you Lizard Squad

• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-01-03 22:41

  Quote from Odin;1259679:

  
  Lesson here?
  
  Microsoft and Sony are too stingy to buy proper server infrastructure that can fend off kids being assholes.
  
  Gaben probably gets shot at all the time and figured out how to deal with it efficiently.

  
  Using a TF2-like font is very appropriate.
  
  Also LOL.
• Compass wrote on 2015-01-04 00:18

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1258967:

  No hackers ever stopped me from playing my PS2. Just saying. #Downwithcloudgaming

  
  It's not cloud gaming.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2015-01-04 10:33

  Quote from Odin;1259679:

  
  
  Lesson here?
  
  Microsoft and Sony are too stingy to buy proper server infrastructure that can fend off kids being assholes.
  
  Gaben probably gets shot at all the time and figured out how to deal with it efficiently.

  
  
  Fuckers kicked me off of shogun 2 with my brother.
• Baku wrote on 2015-01-04 13:00

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1258967:

  No hackers ever stopped me from playing my PS2. Just saying. #Downwithcloudgaming

  
  
  And they are not hackers.
• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-01-04 17:15

  Quote from Baku;1259852:

  And they are not hackers.

  
  
  Semantics.
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-01-04 18:46
  On the upside, this is excellent publicity for PC as a gaming platform.
• Odin wrote on 2015-01-04 22:38

  Quote from Baku;1259852:

  And they are not hackers.

  
  
  Yes they are. Just not necessarially very good ones.
  
  Their DDoS attacks are likely performed using a botnet, which requires at least a little skill in hacking and networking to maintain and use with any kind of efficiency.
  
  Most likely they bought the botnet power from someone who actually IS a good hacker and released malware to create the botnet in the first place, the only hacking they have to do is figure out where to aim at their targets to most efficiently cripple them.
• Splatulated wrote on 2015-05-27 12:14
  1 got caught , posted topic in general discussion
  
  I hope he's tried as an adult and that a name gets released do can follow the news
• Aubog007 wrote on 2015-05-28 00:27

  Quote from Splatulated;1276556:

  1 got caught , posted topic in general discussion
  
  I hope he's tried as an adult and that a name gets released do can follow the news

  
  
  They wont even release names of minors who are murderers.
• Splatulated wrote on 2015-05-28 00:45

  Quote from Aubog007;1276621:

  They wont even release names of minors who are murderers.

  
  
  then how do you follow news on them ?
• Zekkii wrote on 2015-05-28 04:58
  What's the point of juvenile laws if everyone is tried as an adult? Everyone's so hateful.
• Splatulated wrote on 2015-05-28 06:39

  Quote from Zekkii;1276656:

  What's the point of juvenile laws if everyone is tried as an adult? Everyone's so hateful.

  
  
  for minor shit like tossing rocks at windows
  
  not ruining peoples lives to point they drop out of college just to avoid being harrassed further
• Yai wrote on 2015-05-28 13:10
  Splat thanks for continuing the discussion! Normally necros wouldn't be allowed but we are giving an exception here since the discussion is still actively going and only had a short break.
  
  For the person who got caught, I'm honestly glad. They cause so much trouble and it doesn't really solve anything in the end. I've laughed at some of the stuff they do but ultimately it is pointless.
  
  Hopefully they catch more of them.
• Rikudemon wrote on 2015-05-28 13:31
  Well no one likes DDos attackers.....its pretty cheap.....
• Odin wrote on 2015-05-28 17:12

  Quote from Rikudemon;1276689:

  Well no one likes DDos attackers.....its pretty cheap.....

  
  
  That's the sad part of it.
  
  For a child's allowance you can buy enough bots to deliver a crippling blow to the infrastructure of popular services, and there is basically nothing that services who would be targetted can do to stop it but try to minimize how big of a target they are.
  
  I still think Lizard Squad may actually be some sort of false flag and had undercover operators who taught them how to do this stuff and made sure they had access to the means of doing so, but by now the evidence of that would already have been purged and impossible to dig up.
  
  The kids will do time for their offenses, and the whole situation will become another example case to try and justify more and more invasions of our privacy when using the internet on the pretext of 'protecting the children from criminal activity.'