The traffic is so huge it has spilled out into all of the internet in this
area. If it gets worse you could see a regional internet blackout.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radabaugh
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 5:55 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?
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?
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