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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by duiker101 on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:33AM (#5576018)
Non-malicious DDOS attacks might be considered those where the traffic is genuine, like a normal website reaching the frontpage of reddit or hn.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by manojlds on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:41AM (#5576047)
By definition, DDOS, are malicious no? Otherwise, the site is just having high traffic that it cannot handle. If my blog goes down after being on the front page of HN, is that a DDOS?
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by garethadams on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:47AM (#5576065)
I think it's more the term "attack" that indicates maliciousness.

Getting Slashdotted or Hacker Newsed is definitely a distributed denial of service, but it's not so much an attack

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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by umsm on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:04PM (#5577323)
By definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by criley on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:14AM (#5576427)
I don't think it's appropriate to use the DDoS acronym when not referring to an "attack". It's non-standard and will only create confusion. Every "source" online describing a DDoS uses it explicitly to refer to an attack.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by trhtrsh on Friday April 19, 2013 @12:09PM (#5577341)
Was Service Denied? Was the cause Distributed?
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