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General: Daybreak & DDOS - Reaction to Smed's Challenge on Twitter?
SBFord
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A day after the sentencing of a member of Lizard Squad and subsequent Twitter tirade by Daybreak Game Studio's John Smedley, it appears that all of DGS's titles and its website are under DDOS attack, with players unable to log into either.
The altercation between Smedley and remaining Lizard Squad members began after Julius Kivimaki, the now-convicted criminal of more than 50,000 counts of computer crimes, was sentenced yesterday. Smedley took to Twitter to express his strong feeling that the sentence meted out by the court in Finland was too light.
His parents need to be held accountable for his actions in addition to his going to jail. @what_security - So I'm coming for you Julius.
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015
A Twitter user claiming to be a member of Lizard Squad announced the attacks were imminent. Within minutes, the predicted DDOS began.
At this time, all Daybreak games are down and the team is actively working on a solution.
What do you think? Was this a trap sprung by Smed or something else? Leave us your thoughts here or head to the existing MMORPG.com thread (thanks Zandil!)
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allow me to begin the replies with
lol
Good one. >.>
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Their coming for you Smed. Their coming for you.
My friend put it best: "CEO Thug vs. internet troll kiddies. This shit is fierce. Popcorn time"
Smed is known for being a bit too mouthy on twitter. He throws a tantrum, his customers suffer. It is one thing to voice your opinion, but for God sake, don't anger the kiddies with too much time on their hands!
Hopefully things die down by tomorrow and his new "investor bosses" tell him to shut the hell up.
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True but you'd have to be crazy to take that job.
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Crazier than being Smed and taking a dump on a fire ant hill...or in this case, getting into a pissing contest with hackers with a lot of time on their hands?
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The only difference is, they have to mess up to get caught so theres really no one to fight. That is only going to make the players suffer, and its so easy to do it again at any time regardless if they do manage to catch one of them.
If he wouldn't have opened his mouth, there wouldn't even be an issue. This is 100% Smedley's fault. He practically baited them to attack Daybreak servers.
Smed's full response:
"I normally don't weigh in on subjects relating to me personally, but I will this time.
I'm extremely angry that the Finnish justice system chose to let Julius Kivimaki off with a 2 year suspended sentence. This guy is the worst kind of bad news.
He's been involved for years in every kind of terrible thing you can imagine including Carding, hacking, swatting people all over the world. He's also participated in a major way in DDOS attacks that caused a lot of grief for gamers and a lot of economic damage to the companies that make and run games.
He was the guy that brought down my flight with a bomb threat. I've heard the entire recording where he convinced an airline customer service agent there was a bomb on the plane. He also in conjunction with others has sent me pictures of my father's grave with nasty stuff on it. I've had my entire credit history put out on the internet including my SSN and my families info. We've had multiple social networks and other things hacked and had my family members called.
I've also been swatted (multiple times) and had over 50 false credit applications submitted in my name and had to deal with the ramifications of what happens to your credit when this kind of thing happens. It's not good. And to top it all off they decided to submit false tax returns.
So to put this bluntly - I want this kind in jail for a long time. You shouldn't be able to do crap like this without any hint of a consequence. I plan on doing everything in my power to see him get what's coming to him in court one way or another. What he just got convicted of were over 50,000 separate incidents of hacking and other nastiness. This has nothing to do with the downing of the plane or the DDOS stuff he did or the things he did to me (not just me btw he did this to a lot of other people too). Those cases are still pending, but they have him dead to rights.
So you guys can debate this.. and that's all well and good, but meanwhile this shit is real to my life and my family's life and I'm sure as hell not lying down for it for a second. I've been working with law enforcement to put him and others into jail where they belong. Some of them are minors which makes it tough. Most of them are outside the US, which makes it tougher. But I'm patient and I'm going to be relentless about this.
Smed"
dont think we're going to hear the end of this any time soon.
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Dear John Smedley,
Smack the little asshats in their tiny bunny balls with the biggest ban hammer you can find.
Sincerely,
Grunty
Maybe governments take it more serious than I think. It doesn't seem to me they do.
I can only imagine the outrage if football games were shut down in the US or Europe by these groups.
I expect governments would make punishments more severe then.
I wonder will Smed be punished (legally, not by DDOS) for what he wrote, clearly trying to influence/interfere with justice system, not to mention publicly spoken insults (to a kid...) such as "peace of garbage", "little dirtbag", just to pick a few. (I know he won`t be, and I guess USA laws are quite flexible in that regard to what one can write publicly).
EDIT: Just found out this recent Smed`s little harmless rape joke.
As much as I dislike Smedley, its disgusting to see you attempt to incriminate him for his remarks regarding a real criminal and sick person that has sought to destroy the livelihood of both him and so many others.
You should be ashamed of yourself.