Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report — and it's a mystery who's behind it

Business Insider ^ | Oliver Darcy

[Beave Meister]

The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods of time over the course of the last two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks, according to its founder, Matt Drudge.

And it's a mystery who's behind it all.

Drudge wrote on Twitter that a December 30 attack was the "biggest DDoS since [the] site's inception."

A DDoS attack is executed by using hijacked computers or electronic devices to flood a website with redundant requests, aiming to overload the website's hosting server and render it unavailable.

[null and void]

I’ve done that too...

[null and void]

I’m Stalin for time while I think up a better post.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Drudge aggregates news of all kinds, just because he doesn’t slant and fake it doesn’t mean it is a conservative site.

Actually it kind of does.

Conservative news is just that, news.

Let people read it, talk about it and make up their own minds.

[BykrBayb]

Truth is the heart of conservatism.

[Bratch]

That’s 2 Marx against you.

[BykrBayb]

Is that where you got your nickname?

[sten]

when i open my browser in the morning, i’ve been doing the same thing for the last 15+ years:
—
1. check drudge for top stories or major things of note
2. hit FR for a deeper look at the stories of the day along w/ commentary

no need for any other news source after those two. many times, i’m more informed then my congresscritter’s office

[BykrBayb]

Looks like you've falLen into a trap.

[KTM rider]

I would suspect the major internet providers who own the infrastructure, like Comcast for example. They really want to be able to also control the content on the internet,(want to make websites pay them for rights to get online) especially the news media. Because they are owned by the MSM

[TigersEye]

Someone start a pool. I’ll put $20 bucks on the CIA.

[Windflier]

C'mon, now. What's your Engel, son?

[Simon Foxx]

ANY QUESTIONS?

[Lopeover]

I depend on FR, Drudge & Breitbart these days for news and commentary.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Ping

[A CA Guy]

Yes, that or DJC related.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Me too.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

The site is ‘conservative’ in that he is ‘conserving’ the news. It is not ‘fake news’ like the MSM propagates, nor it lt like their ‘infotainment’. By not adding to the news (propaganda), it is ‘conservative’ in that regard.

[null and void]

Fallen? I should just walk to the end of the pier Andropov...

[Ezekiel]

If this is what FR has come to, so vi et!

(Boy, the stuff that’s out there on the internyet...)

[tumblindice]

His eyes look like fried eggs.