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If it blocks your IP, wouldn’t everyone who came to your house get banned as long as they’re using your Wi-Fi?

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[–] Zippy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like something I should do in every Starbucks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It will take a lot of effort, but yeah, I guess you could be a hacktivist that way. A smarter approach would be to leave little Arduino proxies or something in public Wifi locations, so you could do it all remotely. And then, going to the logical conclusion you arrive back at DDoS from other people's hacked computers, which is a time honoured cybercrime strategy.

It would take a lot of time and it's still not going to sink Reddit if it's just you, though. Honestly looking at Twitter you have to do ridiculous shit to a big monopoly-ish network service to make people leave it. Like, more than Elon already did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A little unrelated, but sometimes the DDoS protection can be a little too sensitive. The website of my school hands out temporary IP bans even if you just hit refresh too fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"The refresh button is hacking"

[–] Perhyte 2 points 1 year ago

I recently got temporarily IP-banned from a site, apparently for subscribing to one of their RSS feeds and occasionally opening a post. The error page they served me (instead of the content I wanted to read) accused me of "botting". Why even have RSS feeds then? 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's actually pretty easy aside from hardware costs. A good ol' Raspberry Pi can be set up to start an SSH server at boot and not do much else. Then, all you need is a tunnelling system and SSH -D can put a browser in that tunnel. With public-key authentication and the right tunnel, you can make all of this completely anonymous.