Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-18 Thread Josh Luthman
7:17 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? > > The best explanation is just like the water system as well. If theres a > water main break everyone suffers, boil water, low water pressure, etc. > I usually explain the internet

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-18 Thread Mark Radabaugh
From: AF On Behalf Of Andy Trimmell > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 7:17 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? > > The best explanation is just like the water system as well. If theres a water > main break everyone suff

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-18 Thread Ken Hohhof
going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material." -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Andy Trimmell Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 7:17 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? The best e

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-18 Thread Andy Trimmell
boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:03 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? 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.

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread chuck
:52 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? I've never had someone react that way if I added that the attack on them also affected other customers, because attacks these days are so huge they don't just "boot" the targeted gamer off th

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Ken Hohhof
d pissing off people and getting booted. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:00 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? The traffic is so huge it has spilled out into all of the in

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Brian Webster
Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS? 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

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread chuck
] 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.

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Mark Radabaugh
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,

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Bill Prince
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

Re: [AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Matt Hoppes
Your kids encouraged a party of 18 semis and 37 RVs to come down the one lane backroad because they did something. This prevents anyone else from using the road. > On Sep 17, 2020, at 7:05 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > > Just tried to explain to a working mother, while she was at work, with >

[AFMUG] How do you explain a DDOS?

2020-09-17 Thread Nate Burke
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