Imaginedvl on 27 December 2014
| Shinobi-san said: You guys do realize that ddos is not only achieved through flooding a service with requests right? -_- |
Actually, yes. This is exactly what a DDOS attack is in 99% of the case. I mean the DDOS is the actual result and even if you can follow different path to achieve it, at the end the majority of "hackers" do exactly that: flooding with many requests.
Now, you may argue that it was not only that. But if it was a simple DDOS attack (as many suspected), it was hardly a hack :)
Also, Xbox Live has not been down for days, only for hours and then it is slow here and there which is a good indication that it is only a DDOS attack. Microsoft mitigated it and I could play online today and yesteday without any problem.
That's what it says "limited" and not down on Xbox Live status page.
PSN on the other hand seems down but I'm not sure.
