Hate Crime? GayGamer Site Hit By DoS Attack
Hate Crime? GayGamer Site Hit By DoS Attack
August 5, 2007
One of the sites on GP's daily roundup is the always lively GayGamer.net. Sadly, GG seems to be under some type of Denial of Service attack. Homophobia at work?Sure seems like it.
Going to the site at this point triggers only this message:
As you might have noticed, we have had some connection issues in the last few days and now the site is completely down. I'm sad to say that we have been the target of homophobic hackers. Thankfully, they didn't get to our database so all of our stuff is still in tact. At this point we are jut waiting for our service provider to ensure everything is good before putting the server back online.
Hopefully, this will be resolved by the end of this weekend, so please keep checking back. You can't keep a good gay gamer down, so we'll be back before you know it, serving up all the sassy game content you can handle.
Kotaku, which employs GG owner Flynn DeMarco as weekend editor, has more:
A hacker has knocked Gay Gamer.net, the only news gathering gay-gaming site, offline with a series of denial of service attacks after flooding the site with threatening emails and hate speech...
Small waves of denial of service attacks started Wednesday morning, causing occasional timeouts on the site. By Friday the site, working with their host, was able to block the IPs where the DOS attacks seemed to be coming from. Then Friday evening someone began flooding the site's forums and chat room with hate speech, including some death threats, and over-sized images meant to bog down the site... The flood of messages and images all originated from the same IP in Philadelphia...
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Posted 09/24/08 at 06:22pm
ConstantNeophyte: invent a way to physically hit stupid people with Snopes. Or maybe just add a button to email that replies with the Snopes url.
ConstantNeophyte: invent a way to physically hit stupid people with Snopes. Or maybe just add a button to email that replies with the Snopes url.
Posted 09/24/08 at 06:20pm
ConstantNeophyte: I am so sick of people in my office forwarding shit like "microwave water kills plants" and "Perfume robbers". Someone needs to
ConstantNeophyte: I am so sick of people in my office forwarding shit like "microwave water kills plants" and "Perfume robbers". Someone needs to
Posted 09/24/08 at 05:22pm
Tarosan: Past, present and future
Tarosan: Past, present and future
Posted 09/24/08 at 05:21pm
Tarosan: I'm going to find it funny since JT now has to register in order to continue his crap, thus destroying any argument he makes.
Tarosan: I'm going to find it funny since JT now has to register in order to continue his crap, thus destroying any argument he makes.
Posted 09/24/08 at 04:57pm
sqlrob: @sortableturnip - You could use bayesian on his stuff and if found posting something unsigned, kill everything from that accou
sqlrob: @sortableturnip - You could use bayesian on his stuff and if found posting something unsigned, kill everything from that accou
Posted 09/24/08 at 04:20pm
1239the: Whoops, my bad.
1239the: Whoops, my bad.
Posted 09/24/08 at 04:11pm
ConstantNeophyte: @ 1239the Yeah, the article you linked to links to GP's coverage.
ConstantNeophyte: @ 1239the Yeah, the article you linked to links to GP's coverage.
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:56pm
E. Zachary Knight: Fixed.
E. Zachary Knight: Fixed.
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:55pm
1239the: Has GP covered this article yet? http://www.gamegrep.com/news/13045-boy_accidently_kills_himself_trying_to_imitate_halo/
1239the: Has GP covered this article yet? http://www.gamegrep.com/news/13045-boy_accidently_kills_himself_trying_to_imitate_halo/
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:51pm
E. Zachary Knight: Page not found in Advanced war article.
E. Zachary Knight: Page not found in Advanced war article.
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:47pm
Mr. Stodern: This won't be the end of Jack, but it should help.
Mr. Stodern: This won't be the end of Jack, but it should help.
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:34pm
gamepolitics: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/11/eca-t-shirt-contest
gamepolitics: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/09/11/eca-t-shirt-contest
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:34pm
gamepolitics: Deadline looming for ECA T-shirt design contest
gamepolitics: Deadline looming for ECA T-shirt design contest
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:00pm
hellfire7885: Though it wasn't only him
hellfire7885: Though it wasn't only him
Posted 09/24/08 at 03:00pm
hellfire7885: kurisu7885 here, since I couldn't use my old username >.< And thank you Miami moron for once again forcign a comments change, =>
hellfire7885: kurisu7885 here, since I couldn't use my old username >.< And thank you Miami moron for once again forcign a comments change, =>
Posted 09/24/08 at 02:54pm
BlackIce: I'm going to nuke what Zippy said about bunny porn.
BlackIce: I'm going to nuke what Zippy said about bunny porn.
Posted 09/24/08 at 02:45pm
Zaruka: lol had to regester but it for the better in teh long run
Zaruka: lol had to regester but it for the better in teh long run
Posted 09/24/08 at 02:21pm
DarkTetsuya: gp: ah ok... cause I know there were a few users that couldn't get login info, but if that's fixed no worries then
DarkTetsuya: gp: ah ok... cause I know there were a few users that couldn't get login info, but if that's fixed no worries then
Posted 09/24/08 at 02:17pm
gamepolitics: my main concern here is actually some of the faux posters as well as those anons who post inappropriately
gamepolitics: my main concern here is actually some of the faux posters as well as those anons who post inappropriately
Posted 09/24/08 at 02:15pm
gamepolitics: well, there was an issue that was affecting user registration that we seem to have fixed. Peeps should contact me with problems
gamepolitics: well, there was an issue that was affecting user registration that we seem to have fixed. Peeps should contact me with problems
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It reminds me that a couple of years ago, there was a "blogs' serial killer" that attacked a lot of blogs and knocked them off one after one, in a short period of time. It was quite weird...
420chan's /i/ is still pretty active with other things. I think there was a GayGamer tread, too.
LOL
I ever was interested on logging in the site, but Gays have equal rights as we have, I dont see why people disgust them, I hae met with Gay people throughout my carrier, at college, nightclubs etc... One of my friends (in the 1990s) turned out to be gay, because of some homophobic turds he committed suicide.
Every person should be equally respected, and i hope they catch who this Hacker from Philadelphia was.
no, it means go ahead and complain, just nobody is gonna listen.
hey man try out this site: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/
I use it for my gaming news (it focuses mainly on European Gamers)
I am straight gamer myself but honestly that doesn't matter I go to the site because I love the people and the information content provided.
We may not agree politically, for I am a conservative but regardless of a political stance or belief there should always be respect.
Gaygamer.net is a great site and I will be lacking gaming information for a couple days till they come online
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I think you're the only one who read that into his response, which, considering your first post, isn't at all surprising.
Off topic guys. Try and get back on track.
@Gaygamer
Hang in there. Get your site back up and remember you have the ability to use law enforcement if you need to because this counts as harassment.
"I still hope they get it up without too much problem."
@Wulf
Was that a gay innuendo? The ESRB would break its collective foot off in your ass.
Anywho. The attackers' motive though unclear successfully put the site down. Attacks like this happen all across the country. It's just now that we are recognizing hatred toward homosexual when the hate affects something that we can all recognize.
I for one do not agree with the gays, but I never enacted hatred toward them. This act that was sent upon gaygamer is a serious matter. And not just because it's an attack on gays, but because the person(s) has the means to disrupt a person's freedom. Who's to say how many other sites this person took down that are gay, staight, black, chinese, jewish, muslim, patriots, foreigners, bluelovers.
NC17 actually more corresponds to AO than M (which is closer to R). And there is a de facto ban on AO games, since none of the big three allows them to be published on their systems, and major retailers wouldn't stock them even if they did.
But why is this even being discussed here? It's really far off-topic.
I remember that article - I, personally, found it pretty funny. But on the anonymous internet, sadly, when it comes to sexual orientation (as with race, religion, gender, class, etc.), sense of humor is generally the first thing to fly out the window, followed shortly by decency, and then by plain common sense.
The effort the attackers put into pretty much rules out the usual idiots, I agree. It's looking like it's hate-motivated, and it makes me somewhat sick. I don't frequent the site, but that doesn't make the situaton any less reprehensible to me, and I hope the police do get involved - if it's a single IP address, it should be fairly easy.
if you read threw the snideness you will see the question everyone wants to know ,why is NC17 banned in gaming.
I think you looked at the wrong comment, or you're seeing something I not. Zigs never even said anything about ratings. At all. First he said that he doesn't get why there should be a gay gaming site, then he said something about Hot Coffee and called the ESRB homophobic and racist. Or something, I dunno. "since it would’ve made the insuing ESRB fuck-freedom-of-speech-athon homophobic and racist. Just like the ESRB!" seems a bit like an attack to me, and a rather poor one.
not necessarilly. about the 4 chan wanting people to think it is them. if it was a real one, and not just some idiot who just found it, they have a better term, they would try and pass themselves off as from ebaumsworld.
@toxicity
rules 1 and 2 don't mean a thing if you aren't a /b/ tard.
Wolf
ZOMG pointing out the lack of a real NC17 level in the ESRB is hardly attacking.
Seriously, this is pretty nasty, and there are pretty nasty people out across the internet.
Does that mean I can't complain about newfags violating them?
Done attacking the ESRB yet? *rolls eyes*
Anyhow, regardless of what the motive was, it's still horribly pathetic. I don't really visit the site, but I still hope they get it up without too much problem.
Hope he gets this resolved soon.
'Hot Coffee' really should've had a gratuitous black-on-black anal-fucking orgy buried in its code, I think we would be years ahead of where we are in terms of adressing sex in games, since it would've made the insuing ESRB fuck-freedom-of-speech-athon homophobic and racist. Just like the ESRB!
Oh GP! How could you!? :(
True. I guess they would've just invaded and asked if anyone liekd mudkips. I usually just think of them because they represent such a high percentage of the internet's stupidity.
But it doesn't smell of /b/ really; /b/tards would just stick to flooding the site, there's no lulz in a boring DoS. Possibly a hanger-on, but more likely, just some anonymous internet idiot. (Soon to lose their connection and possibly worse if they were dumb enough to do it from a single IP, duh.)
Dude, you've seen the /b/tards on here. They regularly use hatespeech to get a rise out of people, typically for the "lulz."
It's still possible that it was, in fact, a homophobic hacker, but I doubt many homophobes have the patience/intelligence/skill to perform the kind of attack that a bored 4chaner will do just for the hell of it.
I hope it does get back up soon, though. I'm hetero myself, but I read it every day :)