[citation][nom]Igot1forya[/nom]This reminds me of the days when you could kill an AOL Dial-Up session by flooding the an other user with IM requests...[/citation]
Yeah, I remember the wedge. If a chatroom you wanted to be on was full, you could wedge someone off the network to get in. Real jerk move, but then, people tend to be that way.
[citation][nom]dredg98[/nom]android has a app for sms bombing should be taken off the Market[/citation]
Imagine the financial damage you could do to someone if they didn't have a messaging plan. Of course, hopefully they could track it back to the attacker and sue the crap out of them for any damages.
[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]I don't think so. Do you know how small an of an amount of data a txt represents?A single text is about 160 bytes of data. If you sent 100,000 texts it would equal 16,000,000 or 16MB. 16MB isn't jack sh*t. When you watch a movie on netflix the incoming data would be about 400MB - 600MB (or more) depending on the quality of the video. Movies streamed on a playstation are up to and over 1,600MB which would be 100,000,000 texts. YOU CANNOT CRASH A NETWORK BY SENDING TEXTS. Network capabilities go FAR beyond the tiny amount of data that is sent within a text.[/citation]
You aren't thinking in the proper terms. Its not the amount of data, its the amount of requests. DDOS attacks don't work because they flood servers with gigabytes of data, they work because they flood servers with millions of simple requests. It is the processing required to handle all of those requests that bring websites down, and its that same processing that would bring-down a cell network long before a cell-phone. You couldn't run an SMS botnet to attack a particular cell-phone, the cell network would never be able to handle processing all those messages and routing them to their destination. It would serve, however, to bring down the network which is probably the primary goal anyway.