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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago

Try to put this as best I can. How and what is doxxing or i think its call ddos ing? I just thought it was taking down a website and that was it. Sorry I am an 80s kid.

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Try to put this as best I can. How and what is doxxing or i think its call ddos ing? I just thought it was taking down a website and that was it. Sorry I am an 80s kid.

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago
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    Doxxing is when someone reveals another person’s identifying information such as name, address, place of work etc. a DDos attack is an attack where you basically overload a websites server with so many requests it basically crashes

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      Is there a place where I can learn how to DDOS so I can take down Russian websites? You can PM me. Hopefully this doesn’t get me banned for asking that question.

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        Look, you don’t know what DDOS is, its gonna take a lot of research and resources to do anything that would impact any large corp, no less a guberment.

        Step 1 get lots of computers and lots of friends or bots.

        Step 2 ping (not really) whoever you want to ddos with all the bots and pcs.

        Step 3 profit.

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          Ping as in Ping Pong?

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            Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility)

            Research.

            Edit reason this too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

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        It is seen as illegal activity, so if you are asking like this I would suggest you don’t attempt it.

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          I was asking cause I volunteer at a Hospice house in the states. And with no loved ones they ask for cards.

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        You’d have to have control of a large amount of devices via virus infections. This is typically called a bot net and is hard to do / probably illegal based on where you are.

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        I make websites look pretty so unfortunately that’s a little out of my wheelhouse

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