Fuck the South Korean hackers for slowing down the internet.

[Lake Titicaca]

That wasn't cool.

[REGIME MOB 510]

not at all

[Lake Titicaca]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.

Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted for hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the Internet. (Ducktales) I was at worked and it sucked.

Behind the scenes, computer scientists worldwide raced to cope with enormous volumes of data that threatened to saturate some of the Internet's most vital pipelines.

Experts said the hackers appeared to disguise their origin, but vast amounts of rogue data in the attacks were traced to South Korea.

The attacks appeared to target UltraDNS, the company that operates servers managing traffic for Web sites ending in "org" and some other suffixes, experts said. Company officials did not immediately return telephone calls from The Associated Press.

Among the targeted "root" servers that manage global Internet traffic were ones operated by the Defense Department and the Internet's primary oversight body.

"There was what appears to be some form of attack during the night hours here in California and into the morning," said John Crain, chief technical officer for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. He said the attack was continuing and so was the hunt for its origin.

"I don't think anybody has the full picture," Crain said. "We're looking at the data."

Crain said Tuesday's attack was less serious than attacks against the same 13 "root" servers in October 2002 because technology innovations in recent years have increasingly distributed their workloads to other computers around the globe.

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[swangin and bangin]

hackers should get their fuckin hands choped off

[Lake Titicaca]

In the year 2009, a genetically enhanced female child (whom creator James Cameron refers to as "transgenic") super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara, also known as X5-452, escapes, along with 11 others like her, from a secret government institution. At the institution, codenamed Manticore (which lies near Gillette, Wyoming, according to captioning in the pilot and opening credits of the earlier episodes, although the semi-mountainous terrain and dense pine trees shown in the series suggest that it may have been located up to 30 miles from that western plains city), they were created and subsequently raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins. Months after Max's escape, terrorists detonate an electromagnetic pulse weapon in the atmosphere over the U.S., which destroys the vast majority of computer and communication systems, throwing the country into utter chaos.

The first season begins ten years later in 2019. It follows the life of the now 19-year-old Max as she struggles to search for her Manticore brothers and sisters. In a United States which is now barely more than a Third World nation (a concept largely dropped from the show after 9/11), she tries to live her life, to evade capture and to learn to trust and love. She is aided by Logan Cale and her friends at Jam Pony, a courier company where she works as a bicycle messenger. Other X-5s are periodically introduced as well.

In the second season of the show, the tone changes as Max brings down Manticore, but finds that she has an even more deadly enemy in a millennia-old breeding cult with similar structure to the Illuminati. This has resulted in humans even more formidable than the Manticore-produced transgenics, and now this cult is trying to hunt them all down. It turns out that a renegade from the cult, Sandeman, was largely responsible for Manticore's genesis. The villain Ames White is Sandeman's son, which essentially makes him Max's brother. The series was cancelled before the producers could really play with this dynamic, however.
Spoilers end here.

[The Watcher]

hackers should get their hands chopped off?

cry me a fuckin river

[Lake Titicaca]

cry me a fuckin river

Welcome to 2007 !

CURRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!!

[J$crILLa]

fuckin bastards

[Chief]

whats the point in doing that shit?

[Lake Titicaca]

whats the point in doing that shit?

Testing ...

[swangin and bangin]

hackers should get their hands chopped off?

cry me a fuckin river

suck a dick u fuckin faggot
u desereve to get yo clit chopped off bitch

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

 

[Sikotic™]

hackers should get their hands chopped off?

cry me a fuckin river

suck a dick u fuckin faggot
u desereve to get yo clit chopped off bitch

lol Jesus


And why is the internet controlled by 13 computers? They can't get more?

[The Watcher]

the internet isnt controlled by 13 computers

DNS (name to ip) resolution is controlled by 13 main servers, which is then distributed to a few hundred thousand servers

some kids with a bit too much time managed to take out 2 of the few hundred thousand servers, most people wouldn't even notice unless it went on for 3-4 days constantly

[Chief]

^so the only reason they did it is for shit's and giggles?