Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered

Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by skwirl on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:28PM (#6690740)

While I personally am OK with the Affordable Care Act, and do not doubt for a second that many conservatives and libertarians are reveling in the troubles the federal healthcare exchange website has been facing, I do not for a second believe that it is due to a DDoS from people running this tool. I would be very surprised if this tool even existed before the exchange site was launched. It seems to be someone seeking attention after the fact, and here we are giving it to them.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by ck2 on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:41PM (#6690850)

There is no reason why both cannot be true.

The site was built poorly and political foes are also trying to ddos it.

Personally I think it would be nice if we had stronger laws and actual enforcement against ddos.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by awj on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:38PM (#6691366)

> I do not for a second believe that it is due to a DDoS from people running this tool.

Have you seen some of the discussions about the ACA? There are people out there who seem to genuinely believe that it will destroy America. I would expect a DDoS to be in the realm of things someone in that position would do.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by chaz on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:59PM (#6691027)

NY's own health exchange received 10 million visits by evening of the first day. That seems like a lot of traffic for 20 million residents. As of Oct 28, only 37k people have enrolled in insurance. If the numbers are all true, the traffic seems fishy to me.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by jmerton on Friday November 08, 2013 @07:35AM (#6695723)

Just, please, don't blame it on the Tea Party. We need them badly - at least until they finish fracturing the Republican Party. As for the Democrats - all in good time, my friends, all in good time.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by thrillgore on Thursday November 07, 2013 @02:15PM (#6691710)

Don't blame on malice what you can blame on ignorace!

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by snowwrestler on Thursday November 07, 2013 @12:39PM (#6690839)

To be fair, the article does not report or claim that this tool has had any effect on the site.

I guess Ars just finds it newsworthy, from a social perspective, that someone bothered to create this software.

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