There is definitely a difference between a nuclear attack and a DDOS all out blanket effect. I saw this case as kind of like the war on drugs really; against DNS as a hacker you might put a marginal dent in supply every once in a while but demand will still flourish. In this case the backbone as has already been understated was "quite resilient" and packet flow was only approximately halved after an attack by how many unknown remote hijacked systems?
I tip my hat to the people that built that system; it survived the one of the gnarliest waves of DDOS attacks that I personally have heard of and its a fine example of precisely the way a mission-critical redundantly linked server network is supposed to flourish in the face of adversity and threats inbound from multiple opponents. To take the analogy a step further it was like an aikido expert who battled against many unknown foes and it triumphed through its strength of design and the foresight of the experts that alertly run it as opposed to having to rely only on its techniques and form. They won their battle without even needing to know their opponent and to me thats a good chunk of what network security ought to be in an ideal world. There was no politics involved from a casual observers point of view, the attack simply failed due to superior defensive design.
They're not going to run out of content in my book due to the ambitious Jedi Knight Series of novels; of which R.A. Salvatore (all praise his track record) wrote the first one. As a side note he killed Chewie in it (which sucks but the series no longer has to worry about a GI Joe fatality rate anymore either)and now theres one less wookie to cheer on when stuff is blowing up but it wasn't Salvatores fault due to a top down assasination order from someone (who could it be?)at Skywalker Ranch.
Anyways where this rambling is going is that I will be utterly dumbfounded (to a Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick caliber) if the content is going to be limited only to the movies knowing the breadth and previous qualifications of the designers working on making the game uber who are all no doubt well read and wanting to avenge two bad Star Wars movies in a row. Both Everquest and Anarchy Online will have additional serious competition from this game and the screenshots make we want to perform a drive by on the first Electronics Botique I drive by on the way home with authority...
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There is definitely a difference between a nuclear attack and a DDOS all out blanket effect. I saw this case as kind of like the war on drugs really; against DNS as a hacker you might put a marginal dent in supply every once in a while but demand will still flourish. In this case the backbone as has already been understated was "quite resilient" and packet flow was only approximately halved after an attack by how many unknown remote hijacked systems? I tip my hat to the people that built that system; it survived the one of the gnarliest waves of DDOS attacks that I personally have heard of and its a fine example of precisely the way a mission-critical redundantly linked server network is supposed to flourish in the face of adversity and threats inbound from multiple opponents. To take the analogy a step further it was like an aikido expert who battled against many unknown foes and it triumphed through its strength of design and the foresight of the experts that alertly run it as opposed to having to rely only on its techniques and form. They won their battle without even needing to know their opponent and to me thats a good chunk of what network security ought to be in an ideal world. There was no politics involved from a casual observers point of view, the attack simply failed due to superior defensive design.
They're not going to run out of content in my book due to the ambitious Jedi Knight Series of novels; of which R.A. Salvatore (all praise his track record) wrote the first one. As a side note he killed Chewie in it (which sucks but the series no longer has to worry about a GI Joe fatality rate anymore either)and now theres one less wookie to cheer on when stuff is blowing up but it wasn't Salvatores fault due to a top down assasination order from someone (who could it be?)at Skywalker Ranch. Anyways where this rambling is going is that I will be utterly dumbfounded (to a Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick caliber) if the content is going to be limited only to the movies knowing the breadth and previous qualifications of the designers working on making the game uber who are all no doubt well read and wanting to avenge two bad Star Wars movies in a row. Both Everquest and Anarchy Online will have additional serious competition from this game and the screenshots make we want to perform a drive by on the first Electronics Botique I drive by on the way home with authority...