ddosing random people?

[Vickie]

use 3 firewalled routers, first two routers connected locally through ethernet cables and the 3rd through wireless connection to your xbox lol, they'd give up before they find your ip

[SolomonGrundy]

use 3 firewalled routers, first two routers connected locally through ethernet cables and the 3rd through wireless connection to your xbox lol, they'd give up before they find your ip

lol. the solution is worse thatn the problem

I can tell you why they do it:

Practice:

A lot of internet based attacks (hacking/spoof/SPAM are future internet felons perfecting their craft. If you someday want to commit corporate espionage, or steel money from low tech banks with poor internet security, you begin by "fun" attacks that will not provoke a significant legal threat. (SEGA USA is not coming after these guys).

[KoolAidPitcher]

In order to talk to/hear people over Xbox live, regardless of whether you are in party chat or in game chat, you must establish a direct connection with someone in your party. If you play with other people, you are connecting to other people in the party. Either you establish a direct connection with everyone in your party, or more likely, you establish a connection with half of your party members, and the other half act as a repeater for someone else's communications.

The following will NOT defend you from a DDoS attack:

Having a firewall (if a DDoS attack gets to your firewall, your downstream is already toast)

Not joining Party Chat (simply joining a party on PSU is good enough for someone to get your IP address)

Connecting a router to a router to a switch to a hub to some other doohickey (This does not make any difference whatsoever, because the attacker does not DDoS your Xbox, but rather your home internet connection.)

The following WILL defend against a DDoS attack:

Having an ISP which automatically detects and black holes DDoS attacks. No consumer ISPs do this.

Having more downstream than the DDoS attack is capable of flooding. For example, Kakarot claims to have a botnet of 3000 bots. Assuming each bot is capable of 256KB/s upload, you would need 750MB/s download speed.

Tunneling your internet connection through a VPN which is DDoS protected. In this case, the DDoS attack will stop at the VPN and your connection will remain unaffected.

Of course, if the D in the DDos is large enough, there is nothing you can do to protect yourself from it. If you have sufficient proof as to who is DDoSing people, you should report it to the FBI. It is a felony in the US and in the UK, it is a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.

[DoubleJG]

If you have sufficient proof as to who is DDoSing people, you should report it to the FBI. It is a felony in the US and in the UK, it is a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.

10 years? Yowza.

[xmoonprismpowerx]

Sounds like someone, honestly, has no life if they go through all that trouble.