Ok so like two days in a row there is someone DDOSing Blizzard WoW classic servers.
How can someone does this to such a big company? They have so many resources. And how hard is it to track the person who does this? I rly dont understand why would anyone do this in a first place, will the person go to jail for this or is it “untrackable”?
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Let’s say there was a free text service that texted you the weather if you sent it a text first. You want to mess with your friend so you text the service but tell it to respond to your friends number!
Now the service doesn’t want to miss sending you a message so it automatically tries again 4 times if it doesn’t go through.
If just you did that its annoying but not enough to cripple your friends phone. But if you got 20 of your buddies to play along and do it then now your buddies phone can’t keep up. The message service isn’t getting messages through so it keeps trying 4x (for each missed request). At some point your buddy and his phone won’t be able to keep up and you’ll lock it up and prevent it from doing anything else.
That’s what a ddos attack is.
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