> Lizard Squad ruined Christmas for people around the world
Come on!
Come on!
Christmas was well and truly ruined for him. It was heartbreaking to see that happen to him after all year of working his butt off and looking forward to it.
Seriously, you might not like MS, proprietary software, their business models, or lots of other things about them, but don't go blaming them for some cretins attacking their systems in a failed ploy to make a buck.
The Lizard script kiddies had a pretty horrible business model too, FWIW, break into a bunch of systems across the internet to DDoS Xbox/PSN servers, ruin a bunch of people's Christmas, and use the media coverage to sell their DDoS as a service scheme.
It's not that MS was being lax about properly hardening their boxes, though. You could DDoS the most hardened server out there, or a rack of them, it's really an inherent design issue with TCP/IP that you can DDoS systems. It's completely ignorant to blame MS, they didn't have a single point of failure, they had blocks of auth servers nailed.
How would you feel if you went to an amusement park with your family and found it is closed, because a group of kids spent the night destroying things?
Oh, because they use centralized servers. Well, don't do that. Live by the cloud, die by the cloud.
Because first, we build those things and then we shame them for using them and having expectations.
Previous outages have shown that a number of Xbox Live services like matchmaking and chat have been moved onto their Azure cloud.