Sorry folks who follow this for eve content. I've been away from my house and PC, so no eve news. But let's talk some #GamerGate.

https://twitter.com/TerrorTacos/status/510124621803560961


I say to myself, I don't support #GamerGate. But the anti-gamer gate folks really should not be attacking the #GamerGate wiki. (http://wompwobble.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)I wonder what the hell is going on.

Now, the website was up, but obviously hurting a bit. Someone punching the create user button, but not terribly hard (Up to 12 a second!) And this attack was costing 500 dollars in bandwidth costs.

Um...what?

The server in question is located in a colo site in Northern Dallas to be non-specific about it. A single box sitting in one of their racks will cost $500 a month, including 1mb/sec bandwidth. A fixed cost for bandwidth. The attacks are costing nothing (and doing nothing) but lagging the site a bit. Relatively ineffective. BUT they are not going to quit!

So why make a big deal out of an ineffective attack? The only rational reason is to give them a convenient quotable 'oh my goodness we were being haxxored!' For later public consumption.

And of course without more access to the machine I could not even begin to speculate as to who would have been doing this or from where.

But it is of just an example of the 'News' that is being spread across the entire hashtag. It is just one I can speak to and call 'bull' upon.

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