I get what a ddos does and how it brings down servers and sites, what I don't get is how someone sets a ddos attack up.

You see while I'm not a complete neanderthal with tech, I am by no means a hacker in any form. What I'm given to understand about hackers, trying to ignore a lot of the romanticised stuff you see on TV, is that being one requires a considerable amount of know-how and more than a little intelligence, and for some things a fair bit of powerful hardware, purchased or even custom made.

This is stuff I don't imagine is readily found in your average butt hurt hater, and yet I've heard of such attacks being done at the behest of such people, so how do they do it? Where do they get the resources? Do they hire someone? And if so how much would that cost them and for how long? Or is ddos so easy to do that a plankton with a keyboard adapter and a bit of money could do it, and so effective that that is why we're seeing it happen more often?

I genuinely want to know, and I post so few journals of any note anyway, if any of my few watchers want to bring people they think would know into this that'd be cool :)




Regards, Ironclad