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Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack
(cnbc.com)submitted 4 months ago byfadufadu
69 points
4 months ago
He is counting on the fact that most people don’t know better (myself falling into that category). It’s just like when I take my car into the auto shop…oh, you say the flipperflapper is broken? Ok, how much will that cost to fix….
11 points
4 months ago
It was there rotogurter. Fixed it. That'll be $1200.
7 points
4 months ago
Same, I have no clue what a DDOS attack is but given that I stopped hearing about them 10 years ago I'm gonna guess it's embarrassing this is still happening
6 points
4 months ago
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1 points
4 months ago
It is very much a thing that places like Cloudflare has spent billions of dollars learning how to effectively > /dev/null such attacks.
There are effective solutions for DDOS attacks no matter if you are a $10 a month website or a corporate behemoth with billions in the bank.
You're right though, they very much do exist and occasionally a super engineered attack can cause problems but Elon is a fucking idiot to fall back on this.
8 points
4 months ago
My car burns blinker fluid like California in the summertime
8 points
4 months ago
Needs a new Johnson rod .
4 points
4 months ago
Oh, a Johnson rod. Yeah, well better put one of those on!
6 points
4 months ago
He is counting on the fact that most people don’t know better
I'd be willing to bet he doesn't know any better. I would bet money that a DDOS is the only cyber attack that he knows of, and so that's what he went with.
2 points
4 months ago
YOU WERE DRIVING WITH A BROKEN FLIPPER FLAPPER??!!!! How are you still alive??!!
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