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  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    23 days ago

    anyone else remember low orbit ion cannon DDOSing? i guess life imitates art

    edit: receivers. doy. reading comprehension is hard.

    • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      23 days ago

      I assume in this case it’s DDOSing the satellite,not the other way round?

      • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        23 days ago

        Moreover, users of the satellite receivers were involuntarily taking part in attacks and might have experienced reduced device performance during these occurrences.

        the article isn’t 100% clear, but this line suggested to me that they were being used to perform attacks themselves (although it also states “Allegedly, the functionality was needed to counter the attacks of a competing entity.”)

        • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          23 days ago

          I understand it as the receivers were deliberately attacking their competitors satellites (and that this would effect their performance as it was wasting bandwidth).

          Countering in this case would be by making their competitors service as bad as theirs?

      • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        Satellite receiver usually means a thingy for receiving satellite TV. Receiver means that it only receives signals but cannot transmit any.

        I assume that these are internet enabled. Maybe just for updates, or maybe to also do streaming. So, I take it to mean that they do the normal internet DDOS thing on the side, in a way that has nothing to do with satellites.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    23 days ago

    It’s too bad we don’t have details about the other company involved that they were targeting. Seems like the sort of thing that could rapidly escalated – blinding all of your competitors birds on purpose. If those birds are in Geosynch, you don’t even need to be in the country to do it – just same longitude, approximately.