Comments on: A little bit of DDOS http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Sun, 17 May 2026 18:13:53 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Boys and girls, I got news : we're being probed. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/#comment-139152 Boys and girls, I got news : we're being probed. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:35:40 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=45432#comment-139152 [...] major services have been hit with DDoS attacks in the past week or two : MPEx (and once before in January but that didn't do much at all), blockchain.info as pretty good examples. Bitcointalk was also down [...] [...] major services have been hit with DDoS attacks in the past week or two : MPEx (and once before in January but that didn't do much at all), blockchain.info as pretty good examples. Bitcointalk was also down [...]

]]> By: MPEx tech stuff on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/#comment-139089 MPEx tech stuff on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:29:52 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=45432#comment-139089 [...] endless advantages of this particular correct design choice appear readily when, for instance, someone tries to DDOS MPEx. A Distributed Denial of Service attack is something nobody on the Internet is safe from. [...] [...] endless advantages of this particular correct design choice appear readily when, for instance, someone tries to DDOS MPEx. A Distributed Denial of Service attack is something nobody on the Internet is safe from. [...]

]]> By: Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/#comment-139079 Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:27:54 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=45432#comment-139079 [...] way of illustration of this concept, the one and only time MPEx was DDOSed the response was swift and withering. Read that to understand why it isn't really feasible to DDOS MPEx anymore, and to marvel at the [...] [...] way of illustration of this concept, the one and only time MPEx was DDOSed the response was swift and withering. Read that to understand why it isn't really feasible to DDOS MPEx anymore, and to marvel at the [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/#comment-91356 Mircea Popescu Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:53:42 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=45432#comment-91356 Indeed not. The very nature of the beast is that I can't very well handle it automatically - if I could I wouldn't need them as it were. There's probably value in having a community maintained list, and it being kept together with pympex makes perfect sense, I'll chat up Azelphur about it. Indeed not.

The very nature of the beast is that I can't very well handle it automatically - if I could I wouldn't need them as it were. There's probably value in having a community maintained list, and it being kept together with pympex makes perfect sense, I'll chat up Azelphur about it.

]]> By: jurov http://trilema.com/2013/a-little-bit-of-ddos/#comment-91355 jurov Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:35:24 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=45432#comment-91355 Does it mean that, for example pyMPEx will come bundled with fall back list of proxies to send requests to in case of mpex.co is unreachable? Or you will handle it automatically somehow? BTW, CoinBr was NOT related whatsoever to the rogue bot mentioned and itself was not affected outside of impossibility to place/cancel orders. Does it mean that, for example pyMPEx will come bundled with fall back list of proxies to send requests to in case of mpex.co is unreachable? Or you will handle it automatically somehow?

BTW, CoinBr was NOT related whatsoever to the rogue bot mentioned and itself was not affected outside of impossibility to place/cancel orders.

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