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Ask HN: Protection Against Home Router DDoS

Posted by linepupdesign on Friday September 08, 2023 @10:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

My friend is a live streamer on Twitch, and whenever he plays on Nintendo online with viewers, there is one viewer who has been sneaking in, somehow obtaining his IP address (Nintendo online security flaws?) and DDOSing his, shutting down his internet. So far every time it's happened, he has had to call his ISP and request they manually change his IP to end the attack. This is not my area of...

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:08PM (#26891506)

To me, this further emphasizes the idea that Academia has some serious issues. If some academic institution wasted even 10 minutes of my time without my consent, I'd have a bad taste in my mouth about them for a long time. Time is money, and if volunteers believe their time is being wasted, they will cease to be volunteers, which then effects a much larger ecosystem.

Re:Chrome Dino Game Page Infected with Russian Trackers on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:58PM (#26195844)

The popular recreation of the Chrome "No Internet" dino game has hiddent Russian tracking JavaScript in the source code. Additionally, I was never asked to consent to these cookies.