South Korea's communications commission (KCC) says a distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack, a common way to overload computer servers making websites unreachable, was not the reason computers at broadcasters and banks became paralyzed.
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With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.
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It’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focus and sustained conversation impossible.
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Being offline would be expensive for a server owner if, say, they were DDOSed by a botnet. If you controlled a botnet and threatened to DDOS them, you could make some money.
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