Posted on 11/17/2013 5:55:46 AM PST by Beave Meister
Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Committee published a video on their Youtube page highlighting a portion of the committee questioning Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Act’s portal Healthcare.gov website in 2013.
Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.
Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .
The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"
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I wish.
It was about Tuesday of last week when Piglosi came out and said (paraphrased) “The Republicans are doing everything that they can to sabotage Øbamacare” that it was a trial balloon and I knew this sort of slander was coming.
We don’t have to sabotage anything - they sabotaged themselves by foisting a sh!tty product upon the people.
funny thing is, the site is broke on its own. All that's left for a hacker to do is FIX the site
Sounds like the Internet version of the Reichstag fire.
Or, possibly an act of patriotism - some are willing to accept consequences up to and including death. The Left doesn't need a reason to demonize us. They are like zombies - brain dead, feed off their fellows, try to corrupt and turn their fellows into what they are.
Speaking of which - I went to W-Mart and saw a Toyota FJ Cruiser with stickers proclaiming it to be a "Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle". Had those decals on rear side windows. Rear window had a sticker proclaiming "Zombie Response Team" and had a "permit to hunt zombie - no daily bag limit, rifle and handgun of .223 and higher caliber, and the suggestion to decapitate and burn remains to prevent spread.
I'm assuming it was either a Conservative "gun nut" or a Dim trying to be funny w/o realizing he was advocating hunting his own kind.
On a brighter note - there was a woman of about 30 who had her NRA - Stand and Fight sticker.
Right/wrong/bad idea or not, if our side abides by all the "rules", we get stomped...what did Einstein say about insanity?
Ministry of Propaganda is more like it.
Could this be Hillary's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy come back to bedevil the altruistic Democrats?
If we were so damn powerful, we wouldn't be under the boot heel of these fascist pigs right now.
Only the beginning.
1. Biggest Democrat disaster since the Vietnam war.
2. Corrupt Chicago thug President with unlimited resources.
3. Inevitable deflection an oppression.
It’s a very bad idea.
Very good!
This is a typical Marxist strategy. It is called Black Propaganda, (Read: Propaganda that is untrue but holds the possibility of being feasible.
The democrat party is now the communist party USA. I will personally always substitute the words democrat party with communist party even at the local level.
Focusing on Obamacare’s website problem is like criticizing a serial killer for his ugly shirt.
From following the links in this thread, it appears this tool makes multiple alternate page requests from the ACA website. This probably defeats the advantage of “caching”. It seems to have been downloaded and run by more than one person. Then it is described as “a distributed denial of service attack”.
This sounds worse than it probably is. The political angle is Left wing paranoia. This sort of “attack” shouldn’t faze a web site designed to be accessed by millions of people.
Oh, look, meme-building by Partisan Media Shills:
> Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites.
The Zerocare website could be taken down by a single C64.
Correct.
Minor point:
The left generally doesn't make baseless allegations.
They usually allege we are doing what they, themselves, are doing, or would be, given a chance.
That is the base.
As crappy as that website is, merely complying with emperor Hussein's orders to log on could be construed as a "cyber attack".
I watched the whole video of the hearing, and there was no mention whatsoever of “right-wing” cyber attacks on the Health Care website.
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