On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Someone suggests we pissed off the operators of the
Storm botnet:
http://nailo19.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/wikipedia-hacked/
[[:en:Storm botnet]] was the Featured Article on Saturday ...
It affected a lot more than Wikipedia (although, any effective DDoS
against Wikipedia would do that). But really, Wikipedia gets 50,000
req/s peak. The Wikipedia article gives estimates of the Storm botnet
size that range from 160,000 to 50 million. Even 10,000 computers
sending a continuous stream of requests could manage hundreds of times
normal request load. If Storm wanted Wikipedia down, they could have
done a damn sight better than they did. And what would they hope to
accomplish? I imagine it's just a coincidence.