[wjnc]

That's a big plus in hacker humour, considering DDoS, swatting and other malicious stuff (get it) flung at Krebs.

Edit: are they DDoSsing or donating? If the former, than it's even worse form. Had my hopes up for a second. The article talks about a failing site because of many donations, but other replies here about DDoS.

[cabraca]

They are donating and posting their confirmation mails on pr0gramm.com. The servers cant keep up with the amount of donations.

[kurthr]

Hmmm... it's interesting if true. Or we could be being trolled by the same group along with Von Lars Wienand.

It would still be a bit sad if a cancer donation site could be brought down with so much less than 1 donation per second, but I'd use occam's razor.

[tmz]

The institutes which have been donated to are confirming a huge amount of Donations, which started last night. So there are very many real donations.

[kurthr]

Awesome! There were 4000 (plus 73) donations at the time and I hear that there have been more than 10k over the last day for more than 100k euro.

Still we don't know if that brought down the server accidentally or on purpose. It's a question of intent, and their desire for publicity. Sadly, it only takes one.

[lawl]

No DDoSing, the site is collapsing from donations.

[kurthr]

How many (hundreds or even thousands?) donations over how many hours... and nothing else is causing the server to fall over. That's one incredibly slow server.

[lawl]

> How many (hundreds or even thousands?) donations over how many hours

> The raid is ongoing and unconfirmed sources talk about 11k donations.

I mean, the site is back up now and the raid still ongoing, but I can very well imagine the (shared?) server of a charity collapsing when suddenly even a few hundred or thousand people start clicking around on the website simultaneously.

But I guess you have to call the charity and ask them if you want exact numbers?

[kurthr]

Woah... so most of the people who donated were (from your post) clicking around on the site at the same time? That sounds like a slashdotting-DDOS. Was "the raid" coordinated, because (according to you) it sounds like it?

I'd have to know that the charity was real, that all of those clicks were real, the donations were real, and that they weren't coordinated in loading particularly heavy pages with the intent to bring it down. Cui bono from the publicity?

A side question: Who is Dr. Matthias Moench (now I really want to know) and what murder was he convicted of? that seems almost as relevant.

[lawl]

Sorry, but I think this is the wrong website for baseless conspiracy theories.

[kurthr]

Not baseless.

That none of the many savy hackers people who want publicity for their protest tried to find out how many donation pages they could have open simultaneously sounds like it would take a conspiracy. The 'raid' and its coordinated nature is almost by definition conspiracy.

The description of Dr. Moench and his conviction for murder is on the exact Krebs post being protested.