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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: skitta78 on April 28, 2013, 10:12 am

Title: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: skitta78 on April 28, 2013, 10:12 am
Just want to know if eveyone else has had the same issues today.
Ive just managed to Log in after several times. Could not access the forum all day until the last hour and even now I have to retry 5 or more times to get a page to load.
Is this another DOS attack but on the forum this time? SR has been nearly as bad today also. \
Anyone know any reason why? After the recent DOS attack on SR it was running perfect until today.
Has DPR made any statement on the current problems?
This shit never stops. We need to upgrade the security I think..

Now it will take 10 attempts to upload this post I bet.
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: Jack N Hoff on April 28, 2013, 12:32 pm
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http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1d9l8f/silk_road_and_the_forum_are_under_attack/
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: skitta78 on April 28, 2013, 12:56 pm
Cheers for reply.
This shit never ends. Hope DPR gets some sleep someday. They sure looking after us.
Who is doing this? FBI? Rival markets? Someone bored with life?
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: Jack N Hoff on April 28, 2013, 01:24 pm
Cheers for reply.
This shit never ends. Hope DPR gets some sleep someday. They sure looking after us.
Who is doing this? FBI? Rival markets? Someone bored with life?
I highly doubt it is law enforcement.  They would much rather bust people than to try to partially block or slow down the service.  Rival markets, perhaps.  I would definitely say they are trying to monetize it somehow.  Extortion, perhaps.  I doubt someone is doing it because they are bored or for no simple reason, but it's always a possibility.
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: jaxfrost on April 28, 2013, 08:19 pm
If you logon to SR, put your account to browse in incognito mode. Will help matters some with slowness.
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: amnesia0411 on April 28, 2013, 08:43 pm
How resilient is the site to attacks? I would hate to think that any goon with a rented botnet could put it out of service.
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: luckyornot on April 28, 2013, 08:57 pm
I'm not all that familiar with Tor, but aren't DDOS attacks essentially impossible on dot onion addresses? My understanding is that for someone to be able to do this, they have to be attacking the server backend IPs associated with SR directly-- you shouldn't be able to use any sort of botnet or other DDOS style attacks to disable a dot onion address. I'm no IT guru by any means but I did do my research on the Tor network before I started using SR and that was one of the features that encouraged me to use it.

If I'm wrong, I'd love to be enlightened. My guess is that DPR is just referring to them as DDOS attacks because he doesn't want to give too much away and that's a term that most people who are even remotely tech savvy are familiar with. Many people are asking him for more information but to me this is counter-intuitive -- we want as little information about how these guys are attacking SR leaking-- it would only give would-be attackers more ammunition if he gave out detailed information.

Just my .02-- would love some input on this from codemonkeys and sysadmins.
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: princepaugustus on April 29, 2013, 12:59 am
how long do these attacks usually last?
Title: Re: SR Forum and SR Market been very difficult to access today
Post by: sockmonkey supreme on April 29, 2013, 01:41 am
Cheers for reply.
This shit never ends. Hope DPR gets some sleep someday. They sure looking after us.
Who is doing this? FBI? Rival markets? Someone bored with life?
I highly doubt it is law enforcement.  They would much rather bust people than to try to partially block or slow down the service.  Rival markets, perhaps.  I would definitely say they are trying to monetize it somehow.  Extortion, perhaps.  I doubt someone is doing it because they are bored or for no simple reason, but it's always a possibility.

Thing is, they're not a single unified force. Let's say the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia are all working out some Grand Scheme. Meanwhile some other state's LE has had one too many bad stories in the press and succumb to the pressure. "Shut it down! Even if temporarily" goes the cry.

There's just no way to know.