This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://curi.us/2610-dennis-hackethal-explains-that-he-didnt-ddos-my-website
Hackethal looks pretty suspect given what you showed here.
In the first paragraph of the aritcle:
DDoSing is a crime involving breaking websites by sending malicious information to them over the internet.
I wondered what malicious meant so I can understand what DDosing is.
What I got from Oxford Languages:
So the malicious information isn’t just information. Idk why I thought information meant soemthing harmless. That info sent by the DdoS causes harm and I’m thinking to the website. That’s what makes the website break.
From the second paragraph of the article talking about how ET reached out to DH about the DdoS attack:
I asked Hackethal for information, and he did have information which would have been helpful, but he didn’t respond.
Yeah, that’s not ok. I’m assuming you found out DH had the info later on maybe. He just wasn’t cooperating I think. Like, he could’ve talked to ET about something that could’ve caused harm, but he didn’t. I think that’s hostility.
If someone committed a crime while trying to defend or help me, I’d want to investigate and find out who did it so I could ban them from my community. I’d also make a statement asking people not to do that. Hackethal didn’t seem to want to know who did it, nor did he make a statement asking his audience not to do it (and it actually happened a few more times; it wasn’t just a one-time problem).
I think I’ve seen how hostile the people that Hackethal knows are. I think having a community or circle like should make one cautious about who they keep around. I don’t know if that matters a lot, but it seems that Hackethal has a responsibility as a community leader to make sure there’ no bad actors.
The part of the article where Hackethal talks about how it wouldn’t make sense that he was in charge(I think) of someone DdoSing ET:
It wouldn’t have made any sense for me to do it anyway – even if one were to take his site down, he would just repair it and publish the post later, only with additional fervor, or post it somewhere else with better defenses in the meantime.
Yeah. I also didn’t think DDoSing my blog made sense. I presumed the perpetrator was emotionally upset, not a criminal mastermind. Hackethal later said he was, and still is, extremely emotionally upset about my blog.
What I wrote after reading the quote above the first time:
What doesn’t make sense to me is explaining the intentions of the Ddoser. Like, how does Hackethal know the DdoSer would just rebuild his website AND be more passionate about DDosing? Did he talk to the DDoSer?
Wait so Hackethal is talking about ET’s site? I think that sounds right.
About how Hackethal may have DoS tools and how he admitted to sending requests ET’s site thousands of times.
Maybe Hackethal is sending thousands of requests to every website he visits. Maybe he got angry and set up DoS tools in 2020 but didn’t go through with it (someone else DDoSed me), but he didn’t fully remove the DoS tools from his computer and they accidentally activated in 2025. Maybe his computer started glitching out in 2025, just on my blog, and that’s completely unrelated to the DoSing. Maybe there’s a bug with my website code that affects Hackethal even though I (and others) can’t reproduce it. Since he won’t cooperate in my investigation or provide details about the requests, I don’t know what happened.
Since admitting to sending thousands of requests to my website is such a weird thing for Hackethal to have posted, especially when he’s touchy about the topic of DoSes, here’s a screenshot:
I still don’t fully know how DoSing and DDoSing works, but that’s weird that he has something in his computer that sends thousands of requests to a site. I’m thinking ET and others tested if the requests were being sent like that from other computers.
About Hackethal seeing CF members’ login frequencies:
My forum doesn’t share members’ login frequencies. It shows the single most recent login time, not their history. To identify behavior patterns, you have to check their latest login timestamp repeatedly and record or remember that information. To know that someone logs in every few days, you have to check on them at least every few days yourself.
Did he set up a program to check login frequencies? Why is he looking at how much we login? That doesn’t sound ok.
Did he use Scrapy to send over 800,000 requests in June 2025? Could his potential use of automation tools in 2025 have anything to do with the 2020 DDoSes or with his own claim about sending thousands of requests per hour to my blog in 2025? I don’t know and Hackethal isn’t legally obligated to answer my questions.
It’s so mean that probably many people are probably working together to make one person’s life bad. They rather do that than have discussions and work things out. That’s not so rational and intellectual to me.