People are entitled to their opinions, but sometimes people tend to take things to extremes. This weekend, Gaygamer.net, the internet's safe haven for homosexual gamers, was the target of a massive Denial of Service attack that successfully knocked their site offline. Here is their official statement on the attack: Hello, faithful readers:
As you might have noticed, we have had some connection issues in the last few days and now the site is completely down. I'm sad to say that we have been the target of homophobic hackers. Thankfully, they didn't get to our database so all of our stuff is still in tact. At this point we are jut waiting for our service provider to ensure everything is good before putting the server back online.
Hopefully, this will be resolved by the end of this weekend, so please keep checking back. You can't keep a good gay gamer down, so we'll be back before you know it, serving up all the sassy game content you can handle.
Cheers,
Fruit Brute
You might not agree with homosexuality, you may feel it's immoral, but to take someone's site down over the issue, that's downright awful, and it is, in fact, a hate crime. I certainly hope the best for their site, and I hope they find the idiot who committed this crime. As Bob and Tom would say, I believe I can hear the sodomy bell off in the distance in his future.
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Homophobic hackers who apparently caused enough damage to take the site offline for a few days with a DoS attack, and yet caused no permanent damage or loss of data. It's a hard call as to whether this was a hate crime by an amateur hacker or a staged publicity stunt for a minority group.
Either way I agree there is an idiot to be found. It's sad to doubt a story like this but with the levels that some people are willing to lower themselves to in order to get attention these days things like this always raise my suspicion. We'll have to keep an eye on this one and see if someone get's caught or it get's quietly pushed under the radar next week.
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Well, a DoS attack doesn't really destroy data. Rather, it sends so many requests that it essentially crashes the server. You've had a blue screen of death, right? Save from data lost stored in RAM, did you lose your stored information? Same thing happens with a DoS attack, except on a much larger scale.
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DoS attacks of this type are minor intrusions hardly even recognized as real hacking attempts much like IRC floods or ping floods.
The point is if someone wanted to do real damage they would have. Just because it's a minority based website doesn't mean it's a hate crime either. I've heard of websites using this as a easy publicity stunt before, usually with good effect. All I'm saying is I take this at face value. Someone may have attacked this site, and they may have been the same ones that distributed content and emails as the owner claims. Or this may be a publicity stunt to increase traffic.
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You can't keep a good gay gamer down
That's downright hilarious. Sorry.
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My whole life I've had to deal with name - calling and stares,my car windows being broken many times,hurtful comments and threats and a couple of close calls on being beaten up(and I'm a girl)....so this is only the next step in bashing to me, it's pitiful and sad but reality. Our little "equal rights" parades, to me, are just an excuse to mingle before clubbing that night or see who could scream really obnxiouxiously about something that hasn't and won't change anytime soon...This is not an "accepted" behavior in todays society...not that this lifestyle is a choice b/c it is NOT (who would be the dolt to actually want to choose to be bashed?)! Must there be reprocussions to crashing someone's website? Hell yeah! (But don't look for it to make any front page news of even your community newspaper....bashing is now a norm in today's day :-(
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a DoS attack... lame. Probably some script kiddie or hateful loner. A couple days downtime is a big nuisance, and like everything else it has been turned into something that will drum up a lot of chatter.
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I agree with Tan's take on this.
And hacking will always be around as long as computers are around. And it's not something that's exclusive to one group/database/website as far as victims are concerned. So to call this a "hate crime" may or may not be accurate. Frankly, I don't think hackers CARE who they hack as long as something is hack-able.
So hopefully the hacker is caught and any further propaganda can be avoided.
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There's a BELL!!??
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I'd like to point out that the only evidence that homophobia was the reason for this DoS attack is an unsubstatiated claim by the victim of said attack who, in fact, does not know the identities of the attackers.
It could very well have been that the attackers simply thought the site layout was of poor design.
Like the rest of the board seems to be saying, this was hardly an attack or a hate crime.
This is an imaginary story.
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Its sad that we live in a global society and people can't leave things be. I don't know whether this was an outside or inside job, but something stinks about the way that Frute Brute automatically goes and says "We have been the target of homophobic hackers" without a shred of evidence. Then again, the way that this community has been victimized and attacked by those who do not agree with their lifestyle makes me think he may be correct in his assumption.
Either way, it's a sad state of affairs when people can't just discuss games in peace.
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A friend of my fiancée is gay, and to be perfectly honest, there are still a lot of people that put them down, if not want to beat the crap out of ya. I reckon it was an attack based on the site and what it stands for.
It may of been a primitive, low level attack, but this is to be expected as people who hate someone purely based on their sexuality are people of a low mentality. Honestly, hate someone for their personality, not their gender or sexuality. I mean honestly, it would be like me hating every last person on here that supports Sony or Microsoft.
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*hugz Mars
Thank you for your support!
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I don't like Microsoft with there policies at stuff, but I don't hate all people who use microsoft products...
Freakin' childish, this action...
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Weren't we attacked by a Turkish hacker about a year ago? Would that have automatically been a hate crime against nerds?
No.
So there's no real story here.
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Wow, this story has staying power.
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While it is always likely that a attack can be purely random, as there are individuals who have no life, and have nothing better to do than annoy others to get off. When a site stands for something, like say the official Xbox website. While random attacks are likely, it's much more likely any attack would be someone who is against the Xbox. So I still think it's more likely to be an attack driven by hate than a random attack.
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