[jinseokim]

Technology evolved, and we faced a change: Now it's easy to commit a crime through the internet!

We teach kids "you should not steal" but not "you should not launch DDoS." I think the latter should be equally educated.

[krageon]

The former is probably harmful, the latter is probably just a blip on some giant vendor's radar. Those things are not equal.

[maccard]

> the latter is probably just a blip on some giant vendor's radar.

As the person who has been woken up at 3am by a "giant vendor" (read: my employer, who was not giant, but would be considered a "giant vendor" by a 15 year old), it pretty much ruined my week when it happened to me.

[krageon]

For a real DDoS being woken up at night won't make a lick of difference (either your ADS/pipe can handle it, or it cannot). As such, waking up for it makes no sense at all. For this, you should blame your employer.

[maccard]

The guy who woke me didn't know it was a DDOS, all he knew was our service was down. It doesn't matter whether I can do anything about it or not, someone still gets phoned when this happens.

[krageon]

The whole point of addressing alert fatigue is preventing such misunderstandings from happening. I understand that it could have been a mistake, in which case the thing to address would be to not wake anyone up in this scenario next time.