The analogy that I used recently was: The attack has all the sophistication of someone putting up road closed & detour signs to direct a major expressway down your driveway. Nothing was compromised, but your driveway isn’t big enough for all the traffic.
Mark > On Sep 17, 2020, at 7:03 PM, Nate Burke <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
