Some cunts decide to DDOS a charity for sick kids during livestream - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The official website for Extra Life 2013 is experiencing downtime due to a DDoS attack, according to an update from founder and director Jeromy Adams on the organization's Facebook page. Extra Life is an annual 25-hour gaming marathon that raises money for kids at Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The attack was apparently aimed at the site's datacenter.[/QUOTE] [url]https://twitter.com/ExtraLife4Kids/status/396720855881101312[/url] [url]http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/2/5058938/extra-life-downtime-caused-by-ddos-attack[/url] [url]http://kotaku.com/charity-gaming-marathon-site-taken-down-by-hackers-1457357308[/url] what nice people chats suspect its 4chan but since they are not a single entity please dont put the blame on 'Anonymous' or '4chan' as the kids do these days EDIT: Can a mod please fix the typo of charity in my title?

Why would they do it? I bet they didn't have any extra DDOS mitigation either, because why would you for a charity stream? That sucks.

How low do you have to be to DDoS a charity livestream? It's just pure evil.

any person or group of people who DDoS's a charity event for sick children is a fucking scumbag, but i bet this will at least bring attention to the campaign and hopefully result in a net gain in donations

This is why sagebombing needs to be a thing [editline]2nd November 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=KingOfScience;42735881]any person or group of people who DDoS's a charity event for sick children is a fucking scumbag, but i bet this will at least bring attention to the campaign and hopefully result in a net gain in donations[/QUOTE] This is what will happen... I never understood that 1% of 4chan that insists on doing shit like this. They only bring more help than their hurt will ever do...

-I'm sorry, I was very negatively charged at the moment of this message and I retract my statement (Saving kids is a honest goal and I'm a horrible person for not realizing that in the first place) -

[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42735957]Charity is pointless. I hate when people try to give themselves a "good" feeling to try and support something that is usually just going to fall into a CEO and their associates back pockets.[/QUOTE] we now know who to blame for the ddos

[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42735957]Charity is pointless. I hate when people try to give themselves a "good" feeling to try and support something that is usually just going to fall into a CEO and their associates back pockets.[/QUOTE] Wow, I wish I could be selfish like you. Instead I take the moral low ground just so I can help people more in need than I am. I am such a dick sometimes.

[QUOTE=ashrobhoy;42736003]we now know who to blame for the ddos[/QUOTE] And epilepsy. I mean for christs sake, gaudy nsfwish avatars, fine by me, but this is really obnoxious.

I dunno, I've heard about charities that only give 5-10% of the raised money to the actual cause, and keep the rest for themselves. Maybe this is one of those charities?

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYF746UCcAA0q98.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG] some of these comments holy shit

To be honest "go tell all your friends we got DOSed" IS a bit fishy. What are all our friends going to do?

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033]"Conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy" some of these comments holy shit[/QUOTE] Extra Life DDOS was an inside job. Wake up sheeple.

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033][IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]No one does that for fun? Uh, what the fuck? I can think of five notable DDoS attacks that were done [i]purely for shits and giggles[/i] immediately off the top of my head; I don't even have to try!

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42736062]To be honest "go tell all your friends we got DOSed" IS a bit fishy. What are all our friends going to do?[/QUOTE] I'd say the means can be ignored if it's a good cause but I doubt someone would go through this much trouble.

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033] [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG] some of these comments holy shit[/QUOTE] Extra life is clearly a tool of corporations to keep sick children addicted to consoles.

Hopefully it's all fixed within a few hours, I'm gonna be streaming to help with this.

Was watching Quill18's stream earlier and was wondering why the donation link was broken. Fuck those asshats.

-I'm sorry, I was very negatively charged at the moment of this message and I retract my statement (Saving kids is a honest goal and I'm a horrible person for not realizing that in the first place) -

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736095]I'd say the means can be ignored if it's a good cause but I doubt someone would go through this much trouble.[/QUOTE] I would have to see their confirmed economy to be able to agree that this is a good cause - I don't wanna accuse anybody of anything but at this day and age, I wouldn't jump to defend some business just because they call themselves a charity. I mean, not that it's any more probable they did it on purpose than that they got DDOSed but it wouldn't surprise me not even slightly.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42736137]I would have to see their confirmed economy to be able to agree that this is a good cause - I don't wanna accuse anybody of anything but at this day and age, I wouldn't jump to defend some business just because they call themselves a charity. I mean, not that it's any more probable they did it on purpose than that they got DDOSed but it wouldn't surprise me not even slightly.[/QUOTE] I'd say Occam's razor would apply better to this situation since nor you or I have any idea what the full picture is as of now. But keeping with what they said is true, this could just be a way to outreach the media and use this to their advantage.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42736110]Extra life is clearly a tool of corporations to keep sick children addicted to consoles.[/QUOTE] Well a large majority of the money does go into Extra Life's pocket. It wouldn't be surprising if it was an inside job, but who cares still more money will go to the kids.

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033] [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] honestly i don't see anything wrong with the second half of this. there have been plenty of instances of people trying to get sympathy money in the past and despite the fact that extra life is an excellent organization, their track record does not prohibit them from doing something as dastardly as this post insinuates. i'm very very skeptical that this is the case but i don't think this argument is as hole-ridden as a lot of the other ones

ExtraLife was doing a 25 hours of Dota portion. We've seen the 'gif diretie' wave of idiocy. I think we've solved this.

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYF746UCcAA0q98.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG] some of these comments holy shit[/QUOTE]Since when did DDoS for shits and giggles suddenly become inconceivable? That's the point of 90% of them done by e.g. 4chan and the like. Hell, their attacks on Scientology didn't start off as a moral crusade, but just to fuck with them for laughs.

[QUOTE=mchapra;42736033][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYF746UCcAA0q98.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/4705/2566477-6437575163-BYF9S.jpg[/IMG] some of these comments holy shit[/QUOTE] Beware of those edges, son

We're doing the stream, and the entire day the site has been down. It's pissing us the hell off because we're trying to get donations in right now..

[QUOTE=avincent;42735892]This is why sagebombing needs to be a thing [editline]2nd November 2013[/editline] This is what will happen... I never understood that 1% of 4chan that insists on doing shit like this. They only bring more help than their hurt will ever do...[/QUOTE] Maybe they actually WANTED to help and knew this. 1% of 4chan is also highly intelligent (altough weird by the same amount)

[QUOTE=avincent;42736253]Well a large majority of the money does go into Extra Life's pocket. It wouldn't be surprising if it was an inside job, but who cares still more money will go to the kids.[/QUOTE] Reading up on the charity I have discovered that it is incredibly corrupt. Thats a bit depressing.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42736859]Reading up on the charity I have discovered that it is incredibly corrupt. Thats a bit depressing.[/QUOTE] There are a few out there, I actually used to have a list of a few of them; but can no longer find it. Also, did they ever say it was target at THEM, or just at the datacenter?