you say "ddos victim" like you were brown townly raped or something
have you ever been hit by a loving ddos? forget off if you haven't - here's why
so you're playing along, right? playing your game on your server and stuff, or maybe trying to run a loving business
say, what's going on? you're lagging? everyone on the server is lagging? wtf?
you check your network monitor, and guess what, it's a loving ddos. your isp calls up, and is like "lol ddos forget u null route" and you're forgeted without internet for like 12 hours
god damn, what could you have done to prevent this?
nothing. there's nothing you could've done, there's nothing that would've forewarned you - you're just that attacker's bitch for however long he pays the bill.
period
let that sink into your head -
you cannot use your internet for the duration of the attack, which ends WHEN SOMEONE STOPS DECIDING TO BE A richardPERIOD
you can't loving block it at all. if it's a local computer, maybe you tell it to drop connections from the ddosing computers, but if it's a remote computer, you can't do anything -
you can't control your own loving computerlet me summarize -
you are blindsided by a sudden attack that you cannot see coming or prevent, which COMPLETELY SHUTS YOU DOWN for an INDEFINITE period of time until the guy attacking you stops paying the bill.at least with rape you can see your attacker.
let me just be clear, while i did just compare rape to a ddos, rape is
definitely the worse deal, especially psychologically. with a ddos, you have no lasting effects - your server goes down, but it comes right back up (unless your hosting service decides to terminate you.) in addition, with rape, you see your attacker - but it's probably someone you know. that is just flat out
horrible. someone you trust... urgh. horrible.
the two attacks have similar characteristics though - they're sudden, unexpected, and the victims can't do anything about it... rape is worse, but ddos's are definitely pretty loving bad.
so yes, it kind of is like that.