I don't know if there is a simple way to explain DDOS to a lay person. So many of the terms would be foreign, or misunderstood.
There is a half-way decent explanation in Wikopedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack), but your mother won't understand how her "network resource" was discovered. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:05 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > Just tried to explain to a working mother, while she was at work, with > multiple kids at home, how a DDOS works, and why I had to shut her > Internet off. My examples of how a DDOS affects the upstream circuits, > apparently were really bad, and now she think that she's 'sharing' her > internet with all her neighbors, and 'Never would have signed up if I > was just sharing with my neighbors', and 'why am I able to affect any of > my neighbors, that means they can affect me' She also said that her > internet CAN'T be shut off, if just 1 kid in the house caused the > problem, because all the other kids still need to do school. I told her > to talk to her kids about online gaming, but I'm sure in her eyes, they > are all little angels, probably just playing the Sesame Street game all > day long. > > I get it, she's probably stressed, and so comprehending what I was > saying was hard. I'm running into the problem of 'this makes perfect > sense to me' So I can't come up with a better way to explain it. Does > anyone have a good analogy, or call center script to explain what is > happening? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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