11.12.10 - 4:15PM
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Cole Stryker

4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge

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The final phase of Operation Overlord, 4chan's loosely-orchestrated effort to bring down Tumblr, is on. And this time they're bringing their LOIC's. LOIC stands for Lower Orbit Ion Cannon, the nickname of a program that will DoS (Denial of Service) attack a targeted site.

After the jump, the full poster explaining the upcoming raid.

[UPDATE: 4chan and Tumblr both took each other offline Sunday evening during a double raid, and a 4channer posted the address of Tumblr founder David Karp's parents.]

A commenter from my last post wrote:

LOIC is INSANELY easy to block (for the most part) - speaking as an engineer. I'm guessing that any venture-backed firm like Tumblr has something in place (Netscaler/BigIP) that can filter this crap.

Meanwhile, Tumblr is planning a reverse raid:

Raiding 4chan? Like one /b/ user says, "Isn't that like pissing into an ocean of piss? What's the point?"

Stay tuned for a post describing the "What Is Air" Tumblr-born meme referenced above, along with more info as this feud goes down. [UPDATE: "What is air?" explained.]

via:// Sylvain Paley
previously:// 4chan Declares War on Tumblr
update:// 4chan Uncovers Tumblr Founder's Parents' Home Address as Site Fight Gets Ugly
update:// What Is Air? - The Tumblr-Omegle Meme That Made 4chan Raid Tumblr

*/ tags: 4chan - b - blogs - loic - operation overlord - trolls - tumblr

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11.12.10

By Lun

Highest Rank

This is pretty damn stupid. Not only is the tumblr raid a perfunctory endeavor, raiding /b/ is pretty useless and will only make more people angry... and in retaliation, more raids will ensue.

11.14.10

By Melissa

Highest Rank

I agree that it's pretty stupid to retalliate to their immaturity, but as a tumblr user, I'm pretty amused that we chose kittens. xDD

11.15.10

By Mike

Lowest Ranked

This is awesome!

GO TUMBLR! 4chan is tragic, obnoxious, hostile, obscene, tranny pedophile porn-loving place, I'm so sick of them. Give their servers hell !

11.13.10

By Anonymous

Highest Rank

Are they that retarded and misinformed? /b/ likes cats.

Hahaha, but oh well, they can try. Their "raid" and "trolling" is going to end in irrevocable failure.

11.13.10

By Arcorn

Highest Rank

Posting kittens on /b/? Are they not aware that /b/ fucking loves cats?

11.13.10

By Aiken

Highest Rank

Of course they know /b/ likes cats. The intent isn't to antagonize anonymous, but to hit back with some humor. It's a very smart move.

11.14.10

By Anonymous

Lowest Rank

@Aiken- No. It isn't.

A smart move would've been a quick organization, using celebrity accounts to get the word out quickly, giving people instructions on how to DDoS 4chan, before we do to them. That would be a smart move... except that that would only piss us off more, and we'd all dedicate months to making sure that Tumblr, and many other popular websites, go down, and stay down.

In other words, there is no smart move you can make. We. Are. Invincible.

11.14.10

By JT

Highest Rank

@Anonymous,

No, performing and illegal DDOS when you are a corporation would be the definition of stupidity, that and your inability to think of it.

11.14.10

By Annon

Lowest Rank

@Anonymus You are not Invincible. Why? BECAUSE 4CHAN IS SHUTTING DOWN THIS MONTH AHAHAHHAHAHA DUMBASS BITCH.

3.10.11

By x7o

Neutral

Looks to me like an inside job. COINTELPRO style. This is a /b/ agent provocateur. It's all going to go down like napalm. fokk.

11.14.10

By A Tumblr User

Highest Rank

Alright so seriously... this is the stupidest thing ever. I mean ALOT of people use tumnblr as a regular blog as well. And not even doing anything to 4chan. And heck... some CELEBS have blogs on tumblr like Hayley Williams from Paramore, Harry Shum Jr., and Dianna Agron. And you're going to punish a BUNCH of people (celebs and regular people) who haven't even done ANYTHING to you by making them not be able to get to tumblr? Doesn't that seem a bit...unfair? I understand why people on 4chan are annoyed but NOT ALL people on tumblr are people that take things off 4chan and such. Also this war is stupid.

11.14.10

By anon

Neutral

honey, when have wars ever been reasonable? it's 4chan, and you're here preaching about goodness? sorry, no.

11.14.10

By Simon

Highest Rank

Hi. You must be new to 4chan.
4chan doesn't need a reason to do something. Most of the time they do it for the lulz. In addition, the majority of the people who will most like be participating in this "raid" will be people who spend their time jacking off to porn stars, not people who are fans of any celebrities. These people also enjoy "sticking it to the man" i.e. anyone who is in power or who is famous is likely to be a target for their pent-up rage.

11.14.10

By Anonymous

Neutral

Is it fair that Civilians get bombed, along with the enemy soldiers? Nope. But that's how it's always been, throughout history. You're bystanders who did nothing against us but ally yourself with our enemies. You did not attack us, but you're one of the people who did.

So, you all die.

BTW, Simon's got it right. We need not a reason. But in this case, the reason is that we're pissed.

11.14.10

By hahah

Neutral

oh man, you are a silly silly person. naivety is so charming sometimes. but one thing is true, Hell hath no fury like a 4chan scorned.

11.14.10

By monkeyforever

Neutral

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

11.14.10

By Anonymous

Highest Rank

Yes.

Oh gawd yes.

11.14.10

By Jeremy

Highest Rank

Anybody else getting tired of 4chan-ers going around declaring war on random sites. It ceased to be cute a while ago, now there’s just an air of desperation and “we’re still relevant! We’re gonna beat other people and then everyone has to listen to us! Guys? guys?” around the whole affair.

11.14.10

By Anonymous

Lowest Rank

Dumbass. It's caused we're pissed, not cause we give a shit about you. Tumblr's full of fuggin hippies who need to learn to just. Shut. Up.

Thus, we screw over their site for a couple of days, costing them a crapload of cash, potentially forcing them to stay down for a while.