He's such a fucking idiot. Has he absolutely no idea how these attacks work? They are routed around the world many times before the final attack vector.
Jesus Christ, he's such a fucking fraud.
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Hello I’m a Ukrainian hacker capable of brining down Twitter, but don’t have a clue how to use a VPN to obscure my originating IP address.
The more I read about him the more I think he has no clue about tech.
Yay, and another one, welcome!
Musk doesn't have a clue about anything technology. He claims to be worlds best engineer, but if you listen to him actually talk engineering since over a decade ago, it's all vapid stupidity after stupidity
If you've ever heard him speak about your field of expertise then you'll know that he is 100% full of shit and bluffs his way through conversations.
Nevermind the group who took credit, he's trying to drum up excuses to shut off Starlink in Ukraine.
Using basically any VPN that allows server selection or tor would allow anyone to look like their IP was from Ukraine.
Hi guys, I'm from Ukraine!
That’s exactly what someone who was from Ukraine trying to look like they were from Ukraine would say.
/s
Article says it’s a DoS but probably means DDoS because nobody does just a vanilla DoS anymore (they’re easy to block). No VPN is going to let you use their service to do a DDoS, setting aside the technical and logistical problems for attempting it, it doesn’t really do anything useful for a DDoS.
DDoS attacks aren’t possible to IP trace, they come from a wide range of compromised devices forming a bot net that runs on IP blocks spanning multiple different areas all over the world, making them impossible to distinguish from legitimate traffic. The only way to catch who is responsible for a DDoS is to find the botnet’s control surface (usually something like an IRC channel) and gain access to it yourself. Not likely unless you find the malware that created the bot net and pull it apart looking for a reference to the control system.
TL;DR: Elon musk is full of shit there’s no fucking way he knows where this attack originated from based on IP addresses because it probably didn’t use one easily blockable and identifiable IP range.
I see no reason to doubt your claim. Slava Ukraini! yak spravy, i yakyy tviy ulyublenyy dynozavr?
(On a related note, are there any translation services that are as good as that of Google?)
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/translation/
Better still: https://www.startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2Fduckduckgo-help-pages%2Fresults%2Ftranslation%2F And use their anonymous proxy to anonymize their proxy to msft even further!
at this point, why believe someone who can't differentiate 8 billion from 8 million?
reading numbers is not his strong suit.
You see, Elon has so much money, that he never sees his wealth in the full format because it the number would be so fucking long, so it's always abbreviated like 8,000,000K
Easy mistake, you're just not rich enough!
“It’s what anyone else would do.”
It could also be China. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.
Nothing brings dumb people together like a common enemy. It is Zelenskyy, someone told me. He had tears in his eyes and I heard it from his uncle's cousin wife.
The first "D" in "DDOS" stands for "distributed", i.e. it's coming from many places at once. Elon is either an idiot or a liar. Or both.
Elon is either an idiot or a liar. Or both.
Fairly certain that there is enough evidence to support that he is both.
This. And distribution is not even an option: such servers block IP addresses that send suspicious amounts of data anyways so the DDoS request must be distributed.
Distributed just means "multiple sources" not "multiple countries".
Correct - but having seen them in action, well planned ones are executed from multiple countries at once so they can't just be geoip blocked.
My money is on Elon not understanding how it works, lying, or both. Much more history of that happening than the other.
I agree, to me this feels like a red herring
He's a propagandist piece of hairy shit
Actually not that hairy, you see the shirtless pic? He’s quite smooth, like a beluga whale.
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