Cyberattack Takes Aim at Obamacare Website

[Guest]

Someone's created a piece of software to crash the Obamacare website, but it's so primitive it probably won't work.

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[SteelCity1981]

Good obamacare is an utter joke anyhow. because of this bs my current healthcare insurance premiums are going to sky rocket. I hope this crap implodes on itself before it becomes mandated by next march.

 

[rwinches]

^ I hope you get your rocket ride..

 

[the great randini]

it almost sounds like a lame attempt the government might try to pull as an excuse for why the site Is so feeble.

 

[house70]

That site crashes on it's own, no need for this...

 

[falchard]

The designer obviously wants people to show their protest through numbers since this would take a considerable number.

 

[beoza]

Why even attempt to ddos the site, it rarely works anyway. A tech trying to fix it could probably fart and the site would go offline for hours on end. But this is Government IT, outsourced to the lowest bidder. Blizzard, those folks at Steam could have done a better job with this site, hell even EA could have done a better job! And EA's luck with public servers is not exactly stellar.

 

[Darkk]

That's the government for ya. Too bloated to even care.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

Sounds like subterfuge to me. Watch Obama blame extreme right wingers for the site not working.

 

[Portser]

Really? A website that is well known gets attacked, well color me surprised...

 

[hythos]

LOL; Inside job, as ordered by his royal majesty.

 

[antilycus]

There is no stopping a GOOD DDoS, this is not one of them. If you have a rule in your ip tables or system kernel (on the firewall) saying "if x do y", that eats up the router's processor power. If you have to do it, 100000000 times in 20 seconds, guess what, you've just been DDoS'd. If you want to add a black list, guess what, that rule check to see if the IP address is valid or invalid, takes processor power too. YOu can do what I did and just use a computer as a router. It has the power to keep up with the requests.

 

[dalethepcman]

I don't really see the point in trying to hack this website. 36,000 people have signed up out of millions that have attempted. If you want to do damage, try a site that has >0.3% success rate to begin with, and if your looking for personal/medical data the insurance companies websites surely have more than 36,000 users singed in.

 

[Podzak]

WOW!
Now, who would want americans to live with illnesses and even DIE?

Oh, yes, other Americans!
Who needs enemies when you have your own countrymen?

 

[Reynod]

There is no stopping a GOOD DDoS, this is not one of them. If you have a rule in your ip tables or system kernel (on the firewall) saying "if x do y", that eats up the router's processor power. If you have to do it, 100000000 times in 20 seconds, guess what, you've just been DDoS'd. If you want to add a black list, guess what, that rule check to see if the IP address is valid or invalid, takes processor power too. YOu can do what I did and just use a computer as a router. It has the power to keep up with the requests.

I sent you a PM ... read it then remove the reference in your sig.