The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect Security LLC. On September 20, 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published data showing that the company had a history of hijacking Internet address space that belonged to others.
Less than 24 hours after that story ran, KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept this site offline for nearly 4 days.
Fuckin’ yikes. Some serious skeletons clearly visible for everyone to see if that’s the echo to the call.
Edit: <Redacting this edit so as to not spread misinfo, a website I thought was down is, in fact, still up, just sans
www.subdomain>Double edit: spare a buck for Internet Archive if you can, y’all, we need this shit if we’re going to hold civilization together.
FWIW I shifted my monthly Wikipedia donation to The Internet Archive recently and recommend others do the same. Just a few bucks a month, please, it matters. Zero hate for Wikipedia, it’s a critically important piece of human culture, but they’re plenty good on $ and we need to be fostering backups of shared knowledge and historical records. This is important! No one will do it for us, only we who care can do it!
Thank you for pointing that out, just set up a monthly donation
You’re great and you should feel great!
I’m also a monthly IA donor. They’re being sued by publishers and need to mount a defense to continue to archive the Internet and government data that is being deleted.
Also, don’t buy any books from those litigious publishers.
*Elon’s talent scout strikes again—plucking cyber-grifters from the “DDoS daycare” alumni. Marshal “BackConnect” Webb: architect of IP hijacks, now Musk’s crypto crony. Peak nepo-baby meets cyber-shenanigans.
Remember when Krebs exposed his sketchy little empire? Cue the “biggest DDoS ever”—four days of digital tantrums because someone’s feelings got hurt. Pathetic.
The Com™️: where ethics go to die and grifters get diplomas. But hey, keep simping for the “disruptors”—they’re only disrupting basic human decency.
Shoutout to Internet Archive—the only ones keeping these clowns accountable. The rest of us? Just circus peanuts.
edit: toned down bold and italics, it does indeed look like crap on some droid clients
Wow, that formatting is giving people cancer just from reading it…
So, we need “U;DR”, for ugly, didn’t read.
“Ugly, didn’t read”? That’s rich coming from someone whose intellectual peak is probably reading their own username out loud. Don’t worry—brevity suits you. It’s not like you could handle a full paragraph
@meowmeowbeanz @MedicPigBabySaver i have to agree with him on your text, I also cant read it… Peraphs its because I am reading it in dark mode, but its realy harr to not skip it
Ah, finally, someone with actual feedback instead of the usual grunts of disapproval. Thank you for pointing that out—I’ll tone down the bold and italic formatting to make it less of an eyesore.
Okie dokie, dipshit. Keep posting crap people won’t even read.
Ah, the irony of calling something “crap” while contributing nothing but playground insults. Your vocabulary’s as sharp as a wet sponge, and your wit? Nonexistent. If you’re going to embarrass yourself in public, at least make it entertaining. Otherwise, spare us the effort of scrolling past your verbal flatulence.
I love playground insults. Beside, it would be written farts, not “verbal”. You’re a sorry ass loser. You’ll never be as valuable to society as I have been. Good night, weak lil’ troll.
Oh, sweetie, the only thing you’ve contributed to society is this tragic display of insecurity. Written farts? That’s the intellectual peak you’re flexing? Your “value” is as inflated as your ego, and both are laughably hollow. Crawl back to whatever echo chamber told you this was clever, and take your weak comebacks with you. This isn’t your league.
Branzie out.
Oh, the irony of complaining about formatting while your comment reads like a toddler’s first internet rage. If reading hurts you that much, maybe stick to picture books—or better yet, crayons. They’re more your speed.
Guys, if you’ll survive this debacle, it’s gonna be a source of extremely entertaining youtube essays.
JFC… This such a trainwreck…
Hell yeah, Krebs. Keep on doing the good work we need.
