Do you honestly mean to tell me someone has been running a catastrophic DDOS attack against Voat since at least May?
FIVE MONTHS? Do you realize how expensive it is to rent an unimaginably powerful bot net for THAT LONG?
Why haven't reddit or their venture capitalist investors been brought to court for launching this DDOS attack against Voat? It's obviously them with their $50 million war chest, so why are they getting away with it?
Maybe Voat's investors should try to lure an employee at reddit into blowing the whistle on this DDOS attack. Offer a $250,000 bounty for anyone with proof that reddit is behind the DDOS attack. You will recoup the paltry $250,000 investment after reddit is completely abandoned by the userbase in favor of Voat. Not a single soul will stay on reddit once they find out reddit was behind the DDOS attack against Voat from day one. Think about it.
tl;dr: Has Voat really been under a non-stop DDOS attack since May?
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[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Answer: Probably. There are a lot of sites out there that don't like the free speech Voat offers. They have a lot of cash between them, and I wouldn't put it past them.
/tinfoil.
[–] G4 ago
Plus, it's much easier to start a DDoS than it is to stop it.
[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer ago
Seriously. All these sites have a ton of servers between them, it wouldn't be hard for them to do a massive DDoS.
[–] ze [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Also, even if no one at reddit goes for the bounty, the mere story of "Voat offers a $250k bounty for proof that reddit has been illegally attacking them with a DDOS for five months straight" spreading across the web would still make it worth the effort of offering the bounty, because it would make so many more people aware of the truth even if the hard proof isn't available. Ya digg?
[–] Baohuanghui ago
People would pick up on that quickly. Somebody exploited a vulnerability on Imgur, causing some JavaScript to load a huge .swf file off 8ch.net whenever somebody followed a link from /r/4chan to Imgur. This was discovered within a day and was quickly fixed, and Voat is a larger site with just as many technically-minded users as 8chan. I would be surprised if there was any use of corporate resources to attack Voat.
[–] Baohuanghui ago
The attack is coming from SRS and the other SJW brigades that own botnets. They are harbored by Reddit but aren't officially related. It's possible Reddit is DOS'ing voat through a means similar to the attack on 8chan by malicious code injected to Imgur, but that's unlikely as somebody would have likely discovered that by now.
[–] G4 ago
You mean Atko and Puttitout?