On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM, David Gerard dgerard@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.