The Mike Abundo Effect

Mere days after 4chan DDoS attacker Ryan Cleary threatened me with a DDoS attack, his co-conspirator “f” does the same. Whereas Ryan issued his threat in my comments, f decided to use his preferred form of communication: an email bomb. He just sent me thousands of emails saying this: Read the rest of this entry »

Ryan Cleary alias “ViraL”, one of the hackers who conspired to take down 4chan with a DDoS attack, recently threatened to DDoS my blog unless I complied with his demands.

I have not complied with his demands. I do not negotiate with extortionists.

My blog just recovered from a DDoS attack. Ryan Cleary is now a felon twice over.

I just got this threatening comment from Ryan Cleary alias “ViraL”, one of the the three hackers accused of taking down 4chan with a DDoS attack.

ViraL on August 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Are you serious right now? Remove all material on us from your site or it won’t come back up. You can’t “prevent” DDoS, and you certainly can’t pipe 70gbps on the budget your on, so if I were you, I’d comply.

DDoS is a felony. If my blog goes down, you’ll know who did it.