Hackers Explain Why They Took Down XBL And PSN, XBL Was Easier To Hack

[vivster]

Zekkyou said:

vivster said:
As if stopping massive DDoS attacks is done with a flip of a switch. There is no short term measure to stop it and any long term measure isn't worth the time or money.

Pretty much. Unless your network is so ridiculously huge that stuffing it become impractically (e.g. google), there's little you can do to effectively stop a DDoS. The only reason this one is particularly new worthy is the date it happend. The event itself is pretty common.

What I actually want to see from them is taking down the networks for at least a week. Short term attacks are easy. If they are able to keep it up for weeks, only then they have real leverage. Until then they're nothing more than a slight annoyance.