/ Xeni Jardin / 6:58 pm Mon Aug 10, 2009

Twitpocalypse: Best analysis yet of ongoing massive DDOS attacks

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  9. I’m a 43 year old woman working in a field that has nothing to do with technology or the Internet or anime or manga or lolcats or Scientology/Anonymous etc., in fact, I don’t even know how to jailbreak my iPhone, and I understood this.

  10. The bear is called “pedobear” because he looks like a pedophile. Since Twitter is only 3 years old, it’s being accosted by the pedobear.

    Pedobear started off as an ASCII art drawing that was posted in the comments of sites like Digg, usually when an article mentions kids.

    Half of you will find him hilarious, the other half, offensive.

  12. Umm..

    See google images and search “pedobear”…

    I won’t even bother to link to any of it, cause really pedo-bear…(I’m only 3…)

  14. #8 – Pedobear really likes three year olds.

    Of course, I’m a little confused by the assumption that Twitter is female which is implicit in the use of that particular version of Pedobear. I don’t really know what to make of that.

    Maybe I don’t understand this stuff as well as I thought.

    Hmmm. I feel better, now.

  19. Is anyone else getting really tired of 4chan’s mob attacks being treated as somehow precious and adorable? This is distributed sociopathy, guys.

    I know that it’s the American way to dismiss uncomfortable criticisms as the product of humorlessness. But come on. Tell me these little bastards aren’t getting kinda scary.

  21. #10 Um, pedobear was way before Digg. Pedobear is actually a meme taken from 4chan’s Japanese predecessor, 2channel, sans pedophile implications. That was just something 4chan’s English audiences decided to stick on for flavor. Yes, he may just be a bear with an unhealthy love of children, but you should at least get your meme history right.

    Unless you’re just trying to misinform people. In which case, carry on.

  25. @#10:
    Actually, Pedobear [NSFW, why did you click on that?] was originally a character from 4chan’s honorable Japanese ancestor 2chan.

    There he was known as “Kuma,” a general lech and free-spirit prone to drinking and chasing women. Since he was often featured pursuing typically pubescent-looking anime women, 4channers who can’t read Japanese started calling him “Pedobear” and the name stuck.

    oh god why do i know this i am not good with computers

  27. please tell me someone is writing this all down so it can be studied by future peopleoids. they will no doubt find it intriguing.

  28. 45 and I’ve been on the internet since before NCSA Mosaic. I understood it perfectly. Kids didn’t invent the net.

  32. Pedobear on BB?! What’s next? A weekly strip on NYT?! Yes, with stralol strips like this I could even buy a printed newspaper!!

  34. 4chan’s mob attacks are doing you a favor by breaking the internet and showing what a teetering house of cards it is. What else is going to get people off their butts and make them fix things like vulnerabilities to DDOS attacks?

    With a little effort any enterprising individual can own hundreds of thousands of other people’s computers and bring parts of the internet to it’s knees on a silly whim, and our best and brightest minds simply shrug and say there’s nothing we can do except deal with it after it happens. What does that say to our serious motivated enemies with serious resources, I ask you. It says that we’re willing to stand there with our pants down and let them crash our internets because we can’t even deal with a bunch of bored kids.

    You better treat 4chan’s mob mentality as scary, now, and find a way to deal with it effectively. It’s a small preview of what can happen in the future.

  35. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a pedobear ejaculating on a human face – forever.

  38. Rose, humor is a common way people cope with the most awful stuff.

    I mean hell. People joke about 9/11 and the holocaust.

  39. this is officially the first time I have ever heard of ‘pedobear’ … I thought I knew you internet yet you go make me look like a fool.

  40. Since until know, I didn’t know of the existence of pedobear, I thought it was an odd rendition of the Soviet Bear!..

    I had heard on the news that most of the attacks were coming from old Soviet Block (Georgia and Russia are apparently duking it out online as well). True or not, no clue, but the cartoon is cute.

  42. Oh Twitter. I give it a year before people get tired of it.

    4chan however, will live forever, or at least as long as nerds want hentai.

  44. awesome, i bet there are like over 9000 people confused by pedobear right now.

    “im in ur blog confuzin yer noobs.”

  48. @GibblestheChimp: That story smells rather fishy – hackers DDOS Google, Twitter, LiveJournal and Facebook just to silence one Georgian blogger (who subsequently becomes enormously popular worldwide on the wave of publicity)?

    I’d entertain the possibility that the botnet was hired by Georgian authorities to smear the Russians.

    (Or maybe it was just incompetence on the part of Russian authorities, or even spontaneous misguided patriotism on the part of the Russian Mafia owners of said botnet.)

    Still, it’s pretty annoying when global internet resources are targeted due to local politics. And ominous.

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