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Sun Grid DOS'd

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dept.

feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "

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  1. Cause & Effect by duerra · · Score: 5, Funny

    The outage, Sun reports, began at around 04:43PM, on Wednesday March 22, as every geek in the world seemingly had nothing else to do at the time.

    (Yes, I went there. And yes, that was just unacceptable. I know. hEhE)

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  2. Jackasses by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do people do this? Sun provided a publicly available text to speech service as a cute little marketing gimmick. Thanks to the efforts of these yahoos, however, Sun has moved the service inside the grid so that it is only available to subscribers. Cool things that could have been done with this free service (Sun suggests making blogs into podcasts) now can only be done by GridEngine subscribers.

    And what have these self-righteous "hackers" proved? Abso-fracking-lutely nothing. Sun's Grid was never in danger, and they had no problem moving the service.

    So thank you very much for spoiling things for everyone. I hope you "hackers" enjoyed it.

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  3. They're lucky by yootje · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're lucky Slashdot didn't linked to the project, otherwise they would've been DDOS'd for the second time.

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  4. The summary forgot to mention the rest by moochfish · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "

    ...As thousands of hackers asked The Grid... What is The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

  5. Re: Denial of Service, abbreviated DoS by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    As opposed to Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS, which is when all the girls you know conspire not to give you any.

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