DreadnoughtDT
The Storage Dragon
Yeah. Unfortunately FA's code isn't really up to snuff, but any site can be hacked. I bet if they were persistent enough people would eventually find a crack in Google's code too.
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xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
Haha, I guess that's one way to look at it.
I just see little to no reason in picking faults with a fandom when I can't relate to it.
PatrickQuin
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Though way off topic, and the topic this spawned from of speculating motive and whodunit is frivolous at best:
Righteousness or lack of it be it by groups or individuals not a universally held matter of absolute fact. As an example, I am among those who believe in the doctrine of total depravity.
From the mortal, temporal perspective, yes hasty generalization is a thing that exists, but there are groups of people who do little more than harm and ought to be shunned. Anyone who fervently sides with, say, the worst of Camp Trumpidians, or anyone who insists at length that such and such destructive value set holders are all "about ethics in games journalism," or anyone who takes the gossip twistings of the likes of Encyclopedia Dramatica as things to fap their outrage boners and publicly ejaculate their false indignation over, are generally not the kinds of people worth listening to at minimum.
"They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one."
"So He said to him, 'Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.'"
or to quote Rosaria Butterfield in Openness Unhindered (which I have not finished reading yet)
"So He said to him, 'Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.'"
or to quote Rosaria Butterfield in Openness Unhindered (which I have not finished reading yet)
DreadnoughtDT
The Storage Dragon
That was quite well said, Quin.
xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
PheagleAdler
Well-Known Member
How do you prevent a DDoS, just curious?
kittenScientist
CyborgHyenaroo
When will FA return from the war ..... how will I procrastinate now?! (by reading the repleis to this thread, aparrently ... heh)
AsheSkyler
Feathered Jester
I also recommend using Ghostery. I use it and AdBlock Plus together, and my browser has pretty much stopped crashing on every other page load.
xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
I'm not entirely sure myself since I don't know anything about coding, but it's near impossible to avoid one unless you have flawless coding and a lot of money.
There's a reason it's mostly small or simple websites that get attacked.
Zepher_Tensho
Lodestar
I wouldnt say that the site's code would have an impact on network-based DDoS attacks. Usually, that comes from improperly configured firewalls/IPS/routers which is more likely the ISP's job to fix.
xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
Well I'm not expert on the matter, so saying "all" was probably a bit of a far fetch.
But you have to admit that more often than not, it's usually FA skimping on improving things that usually leads to these problems.
DreadnoughtDT
The Storage Dragon
Ghostery huh? I've never heard of that. What does it do?
Hurricane_Valentine
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Hackers...think they're invisible behind their mothers keyboard. I wish we had teleporters...I stomp a mudhole in his turd cutter.
Zepher_Tensho
Lodestar
Use a "reverse proxy", or in other words, a proxy that takes in all incoming requests for FurAffinity, analyses the traffic, and then passes it onto the server. FA alread does this however, through CloudFlare.
But this is not an iron-clad solution. Hackers always find ways around security measures eventually
DreadnoughtDT
The Storage Dragon
Hurricane_Valentine
New Member
Then they'd just teleport away once we got there.
You're right, my anger has blinded me from their sheer cowardice. Lol
of Fangs and Furry
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Guys. STOP RANTING. I need a profile pic :/
tbonethebunbun
Active Member
It's not coming back... and it probably won't be coming back anytime soon. I'm guessing a week at minimum, and worst case scenario, 3 months. If I were you, I'd find your furfriends Skype information right away, cause you're not going to be seeing FA for a LONG TIME... Sorry to be blunt...
xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
I'm not sure when this was mentioned, but it got me curious so I looked it up.
Looks like an extension that allows you to block tracking on your website.
DDoS attacks are not the result of bad coding, plenty aren't. Many vulnerabilities are the result of code other people have developed, the source code leak for example was the result of a vulnerability with ImageMagick, which FA patched quickly. Yeah their code base is still probably full of holes but a DDoS doesn't work by exploiting a vulernability. A DDoS works by flooding the target with bogus requests, the only way to deal with that is actively sit there blocking addresses sending the bogus requests, wait several seconds before getting into the site like with Facepunch, or spend a ton of money upgrading server and network infrastructure and buying better internet.
xTwilightStarx
A polished turd.
That's a bit overly cynical, don't you think?
LadyNightosphere
College Artist
Profile pic, you say?
supersonicbros23
Appearance: unoriginal; Personality: out to lunch
With a DDoDDoSS? Direct Denial of Direct Denial of Service System? Or would that be DDoSDoSS? Direct Denial of Service Denial of Service System?
lol stupid acronyms and double negatives
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