PSN, Xbox Live & MC Server DOWN!

PC master race baby.
Steam servers will be fine :)

 

Confirmed MC servers wil go down tomorrow!

 

1st) Bringing down servers you don't own by hacking is illegal. In fact every time you remotely access a system without the consent of the owner is illegal. This is because of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 still in effect today, and Obama even tried to expand it.

2nd) Due to this, bragging about it on social media brings attention. Either this is a large scale publicity stunt by the servers or these hackers are really stupid. The Internet (except the deep web) actually has little to no privacy, because a government and even companies can know everything about you. This shouldn't worry you, they do this to protect you (the government does, not the corporations), so unless you have something to hide you're fine.

My point is this shouldn't be as bad as you're being told. Even if they do go down, it is not the end of the world. They'll be back up eventually, and until then spend time with family and friends. After all, it is Christmas.

 

Meh, being honest, I blame Mojang for not being willing to build a web service system that can handle more than 1 player at a time xD

 

what?

 

Lizard squad was taken down last year after they were found.. unless that was a different group.. Nonetheless, the Xbox servers were never down on the last Friday, for me that is.

 

People who DDOS don't pay for anything, their aim is to take down the servers, specifically dedicated servers for corporations and consoles. DDOS is when people ping more than the server can take. DDOS can also be accidental, like during Black Friday, where Target, Tesco and Amazon sites can be overwhelmed by the initial load of people because the servers can't take the huge amount of data influx.

 

The "Ping of death" as you're referencing was actually a bug in the network stack of the Linux kernel that caused... I believe a stack overflow to happen at the kernel level, therefore causing the server to kernel panic and crash. However, that's been long fixed.

With the advent of cheaper and cheaper DDoS protection (for example, CloudFlare offers some free Layer 7 DDoS protection), most of your attacks that you used to be able to do from home, you can't.

Most of the time, the DDoS people are using many, many computers (often times, residential computers that are part of a bot network), or are using some sort of amplification attack (like the NTP amp attack) in order to turn their 1Gb server into 40Gb or more of traffic.

So yeah, the people who DDoS may not pay for anything (and often don't), but it's not what you think :p

 

Xbox servers are down? :O Does that explain why my Xbox one won't work properly

 

no it's explaining why xb1 is bad

 

Damn I have no comeback

 

Maybe it's just your console, my Xbone works properly, just played with some friends from Europe online an hour ago.

 

You know they haven't just dine ddos attack .

 

This is not what he's talking about, it's two different things. Also, your reply was totally unrelated to his post.

 

for real?!

 

Still online, lol.