eli5: What are distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks?

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I thought DDos was the same as doxxing someone, turns out I’m just stupid.

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Ddos attacks are the PC equivalent of sending someone a package from Amazon or whatever.

Pretend I buy you an empty box and mail it to you. Haha it’s whatever though just a box.

Now imagine if everyone in your school/work does it on the same day.

You open the door and packages all over the front porch.

Now imagine if the country of China all did that to you and all the packages are delivered at once.

Now you can’t get out of your house as it’s surrounded.

It’s sorta like that. In layman’s terms it’s artificially overloading a server.

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