Timeline for Someone knows my IP and is threatening to DDoS me
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| Jun 30, 2022 at 14:31 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Nov 15, 2021 at 7:56 | comment | added | Tom | @forest like I said, not enough information. It might be a dumb kid messing with another scared kid. Or it could be a verified asshole threatening someone who relies on the income from streaming to pay his bills. Let the asker decide how serious the situation actually is to him. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 19:12 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @forest In the UK at least, there's a sub-branch of the police force dedicated to dealing with script kiddies and 1337 haxxors. They rarely even get a criminal record for a first offence; just a “here's why this is a crime, here's how many years you'd get, don't do it again” letter (or visit – unarmed, obviously –, if the police aren't too busy). In the US, this is probably bad advice, but in many countries it's good advice. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 12:45 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | Involving the police is not harsh. If you believe somebody is doing anything illegal you should absolutely report it. Nobody is forcing this person to do this (the denial of service attack I mean) | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 9:22 | comment | added | Baumflaum | +1 for pointing out your private IP address changes occasionally with most ISP. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 6:40 | comment | added | forest | I don't think reporting some dumb kid to the cops is the right thing to do. It's not like he's threatening to kill OP. Sending armed men with legal immunity and a power complex to some idiot who threatened to slow down someone's internet is way overkill. It's a good way to get someone shot. | |
| Nov 14, 2021 at 6:10 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |