The hacker who took down a country

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The hacker who took down a country:Daniel Kaye, a hacker known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. Then he unleashed a DDoS attack that paralyzed Liberia for days. Half the country was cut off from bank transactions, farmers couldn’t check crop prices, students couldn’t Google anything, and the largest hospital went offline for about a week. This one reads like a cybersecurity thriller.(Bloomberg)

“I have broken the Internet and am dead afraid but otherwise everything’s hunky dory.”
 
" “I sentence you to 32 months in prison. I’m afraid I will not, in the circumstances, be able to suspend the sentence.” Kaye, seated in the dock, wiped away tears with his sleeve....

...Does he have any regrets? Of course, he says, looking around at the tattooed inmates in the visiting room. “I can’t believe I ended up here.”
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Same scenario, when it comes ,from rags to riches & to rags.

E.g the guy from Market Wizards, who went all in with $200 mil, back then in 1985 or so, to potentially win $800 mil.

From Palace at lake side to trailer park.


What blinds their sight, for potential downside (?)

Snuskpelle said:
People who destroy things for others just because they can are the worst sort of people.
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Wheres a good person, even if he has such ,,power" (as the hacker describes it), -

denies the use of it.

p.s

Sentences should be, much, much bigger...
 
Trader Curt said:
Yep, should have been using cryptocurrency or this would have never have happened...
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How the fuck would using a currency that literally requires the internet to function have helped anything when the internet is brought down by a DDOS attack....that had to be sarcasm about how crypto fanboys think it can solve everything?
 
Sig said:
How the fuck would using a currency that literally requires the internet to function have helped anything when the internet is brought down by a DDOS attack....that had to be sarcasm about how crypto fanboys think it can solve everything?
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Because you can't ddos a cryptocurrency as I just stated...
 
Trader Curt said:
Because you can't ddos a cryptocurrency as I just stated...
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So you're actually being serious:banghead:
So first off, crypto doesn't help "farmers couldn’t check crop prices, students couldn’t Google anything, and the largest hospital went offline forabout aweek." in the least. Second, you do even have the most rudimentary understanding how crypto works, or what a DDOS is? How, again, do you run a distributed ledger without any way for the distributed participant to communicate? The DDOS attack took down the internet there. TOOK DOWN THE INTERNET just to be sure you understand that part, no electronic communication of any kind between anyone. So how, again, do you verify a transaction that requires communication between distributed nodes and a public ledger as the very definition of that transaction where there is no ability to communicate electronically in any way?
 
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Sig said:
So you're actually being serious:banghead:
So first off, crypto doesn't help "farmers couldn’t check crop prices, students couldn’t Google anything, and the largest hospital went offline forabout aweek." in the least. Second, you do even have the most rudimentary understanding how crypto works? How, again, do you run a distributed ledger without any way for the distributed participant to communicate? The DDOS attack took down the internet there. TOOK DOWN THE INTERNET just to be sure you understand that part, no electronic communication of any kind between anyone. So how, again, do you verify a transaction that requires communication between distributed nodes and a public ledger as the very definition of that transaction where there is no ability to communicate electronically in any way?
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Please. Stop it....

You can't take down the whole internet with a ddoss attack, good grief...

When you have a ddoss attack, you are attacking a specific website or network. Not the whole internet. You cannot attack the whole internet. Do you know anything about ddoss attacks? Because just about every internet provider has some kind of block just for these kinds of attacks, which has been out for years now. And if a provider was attacked then they weren't up to date with anything, then all someone would have to do is change the provider.

Don't believe all this hype the media tells you. You're better than that...
 
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Trader Curt said:
Please. Stop it....

You can't take down the whole internet with a ddoss attack, good grief...

When you have a ddoss attack, you are attacking a specific website or network. Not the whole internet. You cannot attack the whole internet. Do you know anything about ddoss attacks? Because just about every internet provider has some kind of block just for these kinds of attacks, which has been out for years now. And if a provider was attacked then they weren't up to date with anything, then all someone would have to do is change the provider.

Don't believe all this hype the media tells you. You're better than that...
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You understand this was Liberia right? And you do know that's a country in Africa not an internet provider? And yes, they did take down the entire internet in Liberia with a DDOS attack, turns out it isn't that hard. That is literally what this thread is about. No tin hat conspiracy theories, just basic reading comprehension.
 
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