ITT: High schoolers that think they know everything.

Are you surprised? The complete lack of experience and knowledge demonstrated in this thread by people who are pretending to know anything about the topic is... just... its why I stopped lurking and finally made an account.

On a sidenote, this sucks but I can still play The Last of Us Remastered so... meh. Not that bad.

Sir the original comments was that DDos can't be stopped and it can.  Also the packets can be stopped from reaching the server in the first place by being dropped into a null server and avoiding any risk to the ISP or target server. My original point was to say that a DDos can be stopped, even small scale DDos attacks are stopped by rate limiting on routers and switches. So yes I have a basic understanding of what I'm talking about, I don't claim to be an expert but I know of the basics to prevent and stop a DDos attack such as cleaning centers, black holing and sink holing. Please read the first comment, to witch I was referring. I wasn't trying to give a 10 hour lecture on advanced DDos for advanced forum posters that 'know what they are talking about'.

im just saying DDos can be stopped. I don't know everything and I don't claim to, such is the reason I don't go into detail because knowing of methods does not make me an expert it just means that I know of methods that can be used.

A router can rate limit witch is basic functionality used to stop DDos. It's obviously not on the same scale...... I never said it's hitting one server. Please, Sony would have cleaning centers that handle traffic and should reject bad packets. You change from DDos can't be stopped to it can only be stopped in this way. But there are a lot of orevention methods, and yea there is ways to distinguish packets, packets are labeled with destination and sender IP address as well as time till death. Low level DDos attacks will be guaranteed caught if the sender ip is detected over and over again.

It kind of is, wasn't it Google who even openly asked people to hack them 'penalty free' if they could they would be invited at a google and some work their now...

Firstly I'm tired of hearing avout DDOS attacks. This same kind of attacks why I can't even play Phantasy Star Online 2 any Fn more. The way it pisses me off that they try to use US the players as a reason to justify this BS... DDOS attacks are just a troll/s being a bunch of asses and aiming to temporarily take down a server. I also never stand in defence of hackers especially after 2011. People tried defending them like Sony didn't have the right to defend the PS3 from public hacks that was ruining the games smh. Anyways, since June, everyday I've tried to log into PSO2 and STILL can't because of the stupid ddos attack.
Also to the person who thinks a modem or IPS can block a DDOS attack. You should get some time and research why that has nothing on a big scale DDOS attack. These are usually organized. Captcha's are created to prevent these things you know lol. But it doesn't do anything against these attacks. Also didn't you hear of a IP mask or IP block or anythingn these are simple to do these days, can a server catch it. Yes but it can't immediately detect it. I've masked my ip to use American sites like Hulu because I'm in Canada, and you know what, it took Hulu 10 hours of me streaming to realize I was Masking my IP for service outside the states lol. If a streaming service can't immediately catch this. How do you think a company can stop a ddos attack.
Thinking about this just gets me so annoyed as I loved playing PSO2. These asses are trying to take down corperate greed, yet they took down a free to play PC/Vita game. PlayStation which imo is the most generous of the big 3 when it comes down to itm they also take them down while Sony has a flash sale where the games on sale are games that costumers requested lol. This logics amazing.
PS. I don't know what else these groups have taken down but I can't justify them making the users suffer...

One the one day that I really need to use PSN. Twats.

Note I'm bot callindmg DDOS attacks hacking. Jist brought it up since people have stated havks etc in the thread

Such a stupid stereotype. Hackers like this who are able to mess around with big companies are genius (or evil genius I guess), they are masterminds in their work. Most of these guys probably have normal jobs and do this a hobby. where they gain probably more money than all the people in this thread combine. To be clear I'm not talking about morale or ethics, from a software engineering perspective these guys who are able to get inside big companies are masterminds and by far not an easy job at all.

As for your comment of companies not hiring hackers, not true at all and is a very common practice. Like I said above some of these guys are masterminds in hacking and security, if a company can get a hold on one of these guys they can pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep their security safe, if they hack anyone else they don't care. There are also the 'white hats' which are basically good hackers who don't attack and their job is to keep a company's security safe, guys like the OP mentioned are called 'black hats' and they are the bad guys.

I'm online right now, haven't had any issues.

lol read their tweets and then see how your argument falls to pieces.