Russian hacktivists DDoS hospitals, with pathetic results

A series of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours on Sunday, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure. Copenhagen's health authority confirmed the outages in a tweet, and directed patients to an …

[redpawn]

Because

attacking hospitals will make the Right Pondians like Putin better? Or cower in fear of script kiddies and quit supporting Ukraine?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Because

No, because the people trying/doing this have dropped so far out of having a sense of humanity they are IMHO beyond redemption.

If they catch them they should be locked up with only access to books and nothing more technical than an etch-a-sketch of which one of the dials no longer works.

I know that's repaying cruelty with cruelty, but that vermin is worth it. Sinking so low should have consequences.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Because

"If they catch them they should be locked up"

What, you're not going to stick them on a chaingang and get some useful work out of them? Broken etch-a-sketches cost money you know!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Because

Not the broken ones :)

[Spazturtle]

Re: Because

The law needs a longer arm, we need to start assassinating members of these groups who hide away in hostile states.

[Neil Barnes]

Some hospitals in Denmark have been attacked for burning the Quran

(a) Is this a service normally supplied by Danish hospitals? and

(b) Are the people who are so upset by such an activity (performed by a hospital or otherwise) aware of the concept that the medium is not the message?

[ChoHag]

> pathetic results

Do I have this right? When it's one of them the attacks are "largely in vain" and when it's one of ours it's a "sophisticated attacker"?

Does the method materially differ in either case, or just the reporting?

[Cav]

Re: > pathetic results

"Do I have this right?"

No.

[ChoHag]

Re: > pathetic results

This is an incredibly well-thought out argument which touches all the points of concern leaving no room for debate.

You've convinced me.

[NXM]

Dude you have no Quran

Where's that guy when you need him?

(Look it up on YouTube)

[Grunchy]

I’m burning the Quran 24-7

I have a script that copies the digital file, scrambles its contents randomly, and then erases it bit-by-bit. It runs in RAM exclusively so I’m not needlessly wearing out HDDs or anything.

I was thinking of releasing it as a RAM/CPU burn-in freeware.

(Actually I have done no such thing, but of course it wouldn’t be hard. Plus I’d make it optional which work to mutilate: the Quran, the Bible, the American Constitution… Groening’s “Life in Hell” comics… or supply your own hated document! Whatever you want for an empty, futile gesture.)