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I'd classify carpetbanning as a Denial of Service attack
Axolotl:
Carpetbanning floods the server with ban requests, thus making it lag intensely.
In some cases, the server crashes.
This is why Badspot revokes carpetbanners' keys.
Bushido:
wait when did this become an issue what the forget
Axolotl:
--- Quote from: Bushido on September 01, 2012, 09:20:49 PM ---wait when did this become an issue what the forget
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Allstarland, Psp, Mr.LoL, and many other dumbasses.
Darkmaster20:
What is carpetbanning?
Axolotl:
--- Quote from: Darkmaster20 on September 01, 2012, 09:24:31 PM ---What is carpetbanning?
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Flooding a server with banrequests of incrementing IDs. Usually, carpetbanning is done with TorqueScript and a for(){} loop