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Byond is an old free game engine that has existed at least since the early 2000s in games such as Space Station 13, to name one we have I recently talked. It was also the subject of a ddos attack supported, according to a Massively Report, now it’s in at least the third week.
And why, exactly, would anyone have launched a ddos attached against a dark game engine and would continue for a long time? According to a now deleted post Reddit, available through the Wayback machineA group that defines itself as “the free international software community and open source” is doing it to put pressure on the creator of Byond Lummoxjr in making the open source software.
“Attacks on the bydond servers are a symptom of your host”, the extremely Language-sefhiroth message. “They will persist as long as you ignore the voices of those who keep your platform afloat. We voluntarily ask you to take sides with progress.
“Choose: let Bydond die as an owner relic or let it increase as a free project. Time is about to expire.”
Whether or not it is a legitimate claim, I can’t say. Certainly it does not seem a good reason to launch a sustained DDOS attack, but I was on the internet long enough to know “It seems too stupid to be true” It is at the best of the hypotheses 50/50 when it comes to predicting if something is actually true.
In a Reddit thread that has risen not long after the start of the attack, suitably entitled “What kind of maniac ddoses bydond?“Users suggested other possible rational ones for the attack, most of which variants on” Some guys got angry on the Internet. “Lummoxjr implied in the thread that are not sure of the real reason for the DDOs, but he wrote that” they heard a voice on how it started, and did not really involve Byond; It was just a grudge between someone and a server that intensified “.
Anything initially touched it, the fires are still burning: the Website Bydond remains inaccessible and from the last update to Ddo doot down megathreadMitigation efforts are underway but there is no age for a complete restoration. In a Separate discussion Published on May 23, Lummoxjr said he “still had to do with it”, but they also took a sort of light vision of the ongoing casino.
“I know that the current situation has pushed many of us into a more careful contact than normal, and in many ways it is a good thing,” they wrote. “But there have been some people who enter new hot spaces, especially thinking they have a new idea that is not actually new. I know it comes from a good place. We all remember to show a little margin of maneuver and respect.”
And in good news for the people who actually use Byond, it is not out of reach: the website is falling, but some parts of it, including the reports and downloads of bugs, are now hosted on Discord.
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