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DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-rain-falls dept.

YetAnotherName writes "The Washington Times is reporting that everyone's most beloved online advertising distributor, DoubleClick, was subject to a DoS attack crippling the company's DNS servers, and preventing up to 75% of advertising from making it to web pages and surfers' eyes."

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  1. Re:Quick refresher on how the "FREE" sites work... by f0rt0r · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not really. My free website has been running for 4 years now without ads or donations. And there were free web sites before commerce had reached the net ( back in the NCSA Mosaic days). By your logic, they could not have existed..but they did. Maybe you need to narrow down what sites you are talking about when you say "free web sites need advertising", because it does not apply to all of them.

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  2. Re:Sad news by waynelorentz · · Score: 0, Troll

    When they arrest the guy who did it we should put together a paypal donation to take care of his legal costs.

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    Doesn't matter. I'm a sad arrogant person who thinks everything on the web should be handed to me for free, so I block Paypal links, too.
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    You people block the ads that support the internet economy and then wonder why your jobs are being sent to India!

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