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So umm no mention of the 4chan DOS attack? I mean, not that I hang out there or anything, but a friend told me that they organized an attack. You'know. Jus sayin. /b/ye

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DOSing Facebook? It would require a huge effort to create a measurable increase in Facebook's traffic.

Not if they found some expensive requests to use and/or if they have access to large botnets.

sure - if you found some really really expensive requests perhaps. As has been stated -- It's pretty hard to put a bump in FB's traffic.

The more likely explanation is that someone on 4chan noticed FB was down -- and then started talking about DOSing it.

Completely possible. Except the posts to call for the attack were made prior to the world-known outages. But I can't argue your point. I just found it curious that no one mentioned the planned attack.

The Russians were barely able to slow down Facebook back in 2009. Unless someone on 4chan has a bigger botnet and just decided for lulz to DDoS Facebook, 4chan would not even come close to generating enough traffic to register on the #2 website on the Internet.

Anything is possible thought right? If you target the right weakness?

Don't be too naive. The 4chan guys are great but not at that scale.

After facebook's outage started, there were like 9128 threads in /b/ with trolls claiming it was their success.

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