2012-03-06, 10:37 PM
Unfortunately, fixing the DDoS attacks ultimately achieves nothing in the long term. Hackers will find another way to crash the servers, seeing as there are much too many pre-existing loopholes. The fact that duping can even occur (on a database level) is what is most concerning here.
It may not be possible or practical to protect the servers against every takedown method imaginable. What is possible, though, is constructing the software to deal with these situations in a way that protects the integrity of the database (Ex. identifying & automatically deleting dupes through individual item keys/ids, etc, etc, etc.)
Nexon would be heaps better off working on its database structure & preventing the possiblty of dupes even occuring rather than spending time defending DDoS attacks that wouldn't be happening if duping wasn't possible.
It may not be possible or practical to protect the servers against every takedown method imaginable. What is possible, though, is constructing the software to deal with these situations in a way that protects the integrity of the database (Ex. identifying & automatically deleting dupes through individual item keys/ids, etc, etc, etc.)
Nexon would be heaps better off working on its database structure & preventing the possiblty of dupes even occuring rather than spending time defending DDoS attacks that wouldn't be happening if duping wasn't possible.