The Republic in ep 1 is about to get in a war with the Trade Federation over taxes. If a group of space traders think they can win a fight against the galactic government, then maybe the economy is poor and Republic credits aren’t trusted.
You should report this to somewhere like 404 media
SRE:
I do that for data I want to persist, but which I don’t care about backing up (eg caches)
I can outsource things like ddos protection to my cdn provider, but that would still be just kinda hoping I didn’t have any attackable surface I didn’t think of prelaunch.
In that case, I wonder if your money would be better spent on contracting a security review. If you’re worried about unknown attack surface, I’m not sure that funding organized crime to rent a botnet would help. Botnet operators rely on you to tell them what to attack, so you’re unlikely to discover anything new here. Better to hire a professional and get a fresh opinion.
Is this something you’re self hosting for fun, or is it some kind of business?
If you’re running web services for a business, you should look into existing load test tooling/infrastructure. Some of it can be fully managed, or other solutions might have a degree of setup involved (eg spinning up worker nodes in AWS or whatever). The hard part is designing your load test to match IRL traffic patterns, but once you have that down you can confidently answer questions about service scalability.
A load test is not a DDoS test. Load tests tell you how much legitimate traffic your services can take. DDoS consists of illegitimate traffic which may not correspond to what your web services expect.
Usually you don’t test your systems for something like a DDoS. You would instead set up DDoS protection through a CDN (content delivery network) to shield yourself and let someone else handle the logistics of blocking unwanted load. It’s a really hard problem to solve.
Depending on what you want to learn, running your own DDoS is unlikely to be very instructive. Most “DDoS as a service” networks are not going to tell their customers how anything works, they just take your bitcoin and send some traffic where you tell them.
Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.
This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.
Gamevault is cool, but I wish they weren’t windows-only on the client side. Lutris integration would be excellent.
While I’m sure Holocaust historiography has evolved over the last 50 years since it was published, the latter half of The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy towards German Jews 1933-1939 covers how among other plans to set up Jewish colonies around the world, the Nazis did cultivate relationships with Zionist groups when trying to expel Jews from Germany.
The book makes a case that, to the Nazis, the Holocaust became a “final solution” when all the other “solutions” they tried for expeling the Jews from German public life before WW2 broke out had failed (eg, the aforementioned failed colonial projects).
I’d say that Evrala’s comment has plenty of credible historical support.