[MrWiffles]

Could you please elaborate on this? I’ve never heard of that being related to an IPO before, so I’m wondering if this is a standard practice for competitors to get known groups to do this sort of thing, or if this is an economy destabilization measure that’s in the playbook of some nation state actors. Any insight there?

[rocqua]

Like other said. Its blackmail for money. Essentially "would be a shame if your website is down during your IPO, maybe you should pay us so we don't DDoS you to hell".

I imagine this is especially common here since one of the services offered by OVH is DDoS protection. Hence being down from a DDoS would be even worse press.

[tdeck]

It's more likely to be a "DDoS until you pay a ransom" sort of deal where the attacker thinks the company will value uptime more highly during that period.

[Stevvo]

You've clearly never run a web service of any sort... you can expect DDoS in response to pretty much anything you do. Not seeing in increase in DDoS attacks before an IPO would be more concerning.

[MrWiffles]

*NATION state actors. Damn mobile keyboards. Stupid app wouldn’t let me edit the reply either, hence this.

[Symbiote]

The term is state actor, anyway.

A state is a sovereign political division, or a subdivision within a federation (France, Arizona).

A nation is a community of people with a common culture, language, ethnicity etc (the Navaho, the Welsh, the Japanese).

When these are the same entity, it's a nation state (Japan), but there are many cases where they aren't the same (Belgium, China, USA, Russia).

[littlestymaar]

> A nation is a community of people with a common culture, language, ethnicity

Nitpick: The belief of the existence of the said common ground is actually more important than its actual existence. France is considered a nation state even though there are several ethno-linguistic groups in France. A few illustrations:

- less than half of the French population during the French revolution spoke French as their native language.[1]

- The second Nobel Prize of Literature from France (Frédéric Mistral) didn't wrote its work in French, but in Occitan[2].

- My family has lived in France for as long as genealogy could trace back, yet half of my great-grandparents only learnt French in school, they didn't spoke it at home.

[1]: I don't have an online source for that, nor the exact figure: I read it in Frernad Braudel's L’Identité de la France

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language

[pjc50]

"Nation-state" is an little bureaucratic Americanism because if you talk about a malicious state actor there everyone assumes you mean Florida.