h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Distributed Denial of Service - A47701956
Author: Alex Tufty Ashman [!] - U566116


Another entry for 's The Stretcher.

Alex

And and excellent one it is!
Nicely done! Have a couple of

I thought this was brilliant. It has a lot of good information. I can't believe that somebody could take the latest strecher assignment and turn it into a potential GE.

This is great.

Question: Under 'Distributed Attacks' you ended a sentence with 'worldwide'. Double letter?

Ms GB

What I like here, from a Stretcher perspective, is that it reads true. You need to look for the double letter and it's only because we know it's a Stretch that we see it.

Try "globally".

<<'worldwide'. Double letter?>> possibly Alex meant double letter v = w.

Very sneaky

Nice work, Alex

I didn't know this was a Stretcher entry until I read this thread afterwards.

I'd never heard of the size of a ping. Can you explain more? (I can imagine hackers sitting around in the pub comparing the size of their pings)

How does an outsized ping crash a system?

Define 'sending an echo'.

What does SYN stand for?

I think the phrase 'software tool' is being over-polite to this despicable piece of junk. Please use something far less complimentary.

Ooh, you can link Trinity to A46904600

Icy

Oh, and one more thing:

I think I'd prefer the title "Denial of Service Attacks".

This is very impressive.

I'm not in a position to comment on the technical content. However the article is packed with information and reads well despite the need to fit in those double letters.

Sorry for the slip

I think I've made all those changes - I had originally used "Denial of Service Attacks" as the title, so I've changed it back.

everyone

Looks good, Alex

I love the terminology throughout this Entry. It's fascinating that people who derive pleasure from destroying others computers can have spawned such an creative set of jargon: pings of death, smurf amplifiers, zombie puppets. It just makes me more sad that they couldn't have devoted their talents to doing something beneficial for mankind.

Icy

Like trying to trace their parentage

Apparently some of the hackers who do this sort of thing use it against scammers and the like to knock out dodgy websites.

Brilliant stuff!

And reads perfectly naturally.

One thing:
Yahoo
Yahoo!
Perhaps.

TRiG.

I'm not one for showing respect to big businesses, so I'll leave that particular point for now.

nuff

Alex, this entry is good! Are you sure about the spelling of 'Stacheldraht'? I haven't seen that ending on a German word.

leo.org agrees with Stacheldraht.

is correct