Does DDoS affect the person who is doing it?

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ichigo1000

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(Just out of curiousity because yesterday, steam got DDoSed.)
Does it block the person who is DDoSing too so he cant access?
Or only he can access the website but no one else can?
 
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If you were to have your own DoS (Denial of Service) attack then it could choke your own internet at the same time, depending on your internet bandwidth and whether you could saturate it on your upload.
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) comes from multiple machines spread over many different networkss, so in this instance its less likely that those participating in the DDoS (or those that are unknowingly part of it through malware) would have their own internet connection saturated.

And I misinterpreted the question... :p

No, the whole point of a DDoS is that your hitting the website/network with so many requests for information that either their internet connection becomes saturated or their hardware cant keep up, and...
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Normally it is not done from any particular location because it can be easily blocked. All you really need is more upload bandwidth than the target has download bandwidth. Still even if you spoof IP addresses it not to hard to track it back if they really want to. Most these attacks are done from unsuspecting people machines that have been compromised with a virus or malware. This is why it is called DISTRIBUTED DoS. Even if you were to shut one batch of machines down there are many more and pretty much these networks of machines are forsale to anyone who is willing to pay.
 
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There was a kid that bought a bunch of botnets and DDoSed multiple popular gaming companies like steam, league of legends, EA,battle.net and stuff. Will they get caught? They are bragging right now https://twitter.com/chFtheCat
 
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Anyone can say they did it those that really did likely would say nothing since you get put in jail if they can prove it. Those botnets are run from companies in countries that it is almost impossible to get law enforcement to take any action. Likely nothing will happen until they attack government servers in a way that get enough attention. Then the botnet boys need to watch out they will likely just disappear from existence and nobody will know they even were born.
 
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They were probably stupid enough to not keep quiet. They wasted their money to annoy people from the last day of steam sale. So is there a chance for them to get caught? They are messing with huge gaming companies that would not be happy if they lost a penny.
 
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If you were to have your own DoS (Denial of Service) attack then it could choke your own internet at the same time, depending on your internet bandwidth and whether you could saturate it on your upload.
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) comes from multiple machines spread over many different networkss, so in this instance its less likely that those participating in the DDoS (or those that are unknowingly part of it through malware) would have their own internet connection saturated.

And I misinterpreted the question... :p

No, the whole point of a DDoS is that your hitting the website/network with so many requests for information that either their internet connection becomes saturated or their hardware cant keep up, and hence becomes unusable to anyone with genuine business there (thats why its called Denial of Service).It doesn't even necessarily require specialized equipment/software either, if you had enough people, going to a website and having everyone spam F5 would be a DDoS attack. The people doing the attack themselves wouldn't have access to the website during a successful attack. Typically when websites are defaced during DDoS attacks its through some other means of accessing their network, as on its own a DDoS has no ability to damage or change the website.
Despite what movies and what hackers would want you to think, a DDoS is the equivalent of hitting a website/server with a hammer until it stops working.
 
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I have one more question, They were probably stupid enough to not keep quiet. They wasted their money to annoy people from the last day of steam sale. So is there a chance for them to get caught? They are messing with huge gaming companies that would not be happy if they lost a penny.
 
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Yes there is a chance, though there wouldn't be much to gain from going after them. Say Valve/EA/Activision/Blizzard or whoever track down the guy/s who organized the DDoS, a bunch of 20 somethings with too much free time on their hands or a particular point to prove. How much money could they realistically get from them by suing them for damages from the DDoS?
Its not worth their time, as no matter what their will always be new people to do the same thing again.

Its also a question of whether they could do anything about it. If your man lives in China (who are very aggressive, they DDoS ranges of IP address' at a time) then going to US officials isn't going to achieve anything.
 
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