La société automatique, par Bernard Stiegler. Inside the mind of Derp, a hacking group with a taste for cyber chaos | Technology. Friday 27 December 2013. The answer phone message was simple: “Get PhantomL0rd”. No one knew who it came from. The message was left on a phone operated by “DerpTrolling”, a clandestine hacker group, active since 2011. Like many similar groups, Derp, as its tens of thousands of Twitter followers know it, is a loose collective of coders and computer experts, who have a taste and a talent for internet chaos. They identify a target – usually a large corporation, often a video game company – and attempt to break its online infrastructure.
But Derp has a unique approach. The group advertises a phone number on its Twitter page with the simple instruction: “call or text a request.” A DDoS attack is not hacking, it does not require the perpetrator to gain illicit access to the system – instead it involves directing a colossal flood of network traffic at the site until its servers buckle under the load. This time, however, the target was not a website but a person.
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