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Right wing cyber attacks on Healthcare.gov website confirmed
Examiner.com ^ | 11/14/2013 | David Phillips

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
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To: Beave Meister; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; GeronL; Daffynition; JoeProBono
"You people had better behave or I'm gonna turn the internet around and go home right this instant!"


61 posted on 11/17/2013 8:53:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Beave Meister; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Sh!ty website is sh!tty.

1,000 simultaneous users is too many.

But to hear the Obamunists tell it, that's not a bug, that's a feature.

62 posted on 11/17/2013 8:55:22 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Beave Meister

“Funny” that the “other websites” link in the article pointing out who is behind the attacks is a site called “LUNATIC OUTPOST” which appears to be a liberal stomping ground. At least they self-identified as lunatics.


63 posted on 11/17/2013 8:59:59 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Beave Meister

I thought we were all racist rednecks who barely knew how to use computers, much less carry out DoS attacks? How come the Left gets to redefine reality any time it wants? :)


64 posted on 11/17/2013 9:00:05 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: a fool in paradise

Skeptic Cat knows how to smell a rat!


65 posted on 11/17/2013 9:06:54 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Beave Meister

When Democrats are found to be slashing tires of “get out the vote” vans on election day, cutting the power to campaign offices on election day, throwing bricks through the windows of GOP campaign offices, engaging in website attacks and hacks, etc, none of it ever makes the national news.

Funny that.


66 posted on 11/17/2013 9:15:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Beave Meister

What exactly is the “right-wing?” Left-wing and right-wing are terms defining the two sides of European Socialism, internationalism, nationalism, Marxism, Fascism. The American left has become increasingly fascist, so that would make them right-wing. I would love to see a split between the commie and fascist sides of the American left, something like what happened in Europe. Let the control freaks fight over which method of control they want to use. Meanwhile, good on the geeks who are defying the control.


67 posted on 11/17/2013 9:44:27 AM PST by pallis
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To: Beave Meister

“So What?”

“This is war.”

“What difference, at this point, does it make?”

“They bring a knife, we bring a gun.”


68 posted on 11/17/2013 10:40:32 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: a fool in paradise
“Funny” that the “other websites” link in the article pointing out who is behind the attacks is a site called “LUNATIC OUTPOST” which appears to be a liberal stomping ground. At least they self-identified as lunatics.

"Know thyself."
--Socrates

69 posted on 11/17/2013 10:45:04 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Beave Meister

The better Healthcare.gov works the faster the whole house of cards collapses.


70 posted on 11/17/2013 12:26:04 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Beave Meister

Is "right wingers" a journalist term, David?!

71 posted on 11/17/2013 12:30:46 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Beave Meister

David Phillips Twitter:

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1:01pm - 17 Nov 13

https://mobile.twitter.com/yodasworld

The Sunday Talk shows are going to pile on Obama due to new poll on honest & trust numbers, but not WHY Ins. Cos are canceling. #MTP


72 posted on 11/17/2013 12:41:41 PM PST by kcvl
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To: a fool in paradise

73 posted on 11/17/2013 1:59:12 PM PST by Daffynition (*$17,000,000,000,000* Fear the beards! GO SOX!)
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To: Lazamataz

Yes. You are very right.


74 posted on 11/19/2013 5:37:46 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Mechanicos

Accept it and deal with it accordingly - the left will ALWAYS blame the failures of its policies on those who opposed those policies.

You’d think we’d learn by now and get out ahead of each one of these.

A simple preemptory statement of “you watch, when this thing fails, they’ll blame us/Bush/GOP/etc” would do wonders to diffuse this ubiquitous tendency of leftists.


75 posted on 11/19/2013 5:40:22 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Beave Meister

If I recall, the Bolsheviks called anyone they wanted to destroy things like “wreckers.”

Of course, they didn’t need any actual proof either.

Nothing new under the sun.

Communists will be communists...


76 posted on 11/19/2013 5:45:12 AM PST by EternalVigilance ("The simplification of anything is always sensational." - GK Chesterton)
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To: canuck_conservative

Eh, I have relatives in Antigonish that busily signed up all the local leftists registering nonexistent guns. I have one cousin what did it more or less as a hobby.


77 posted on 11/19/2013 5:39:08 PM PST by MSF BU (n)
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To: Lazamataz

Personally I think it is a wonderful idea. I can think of a number of local government employees who are enthusiastic supporters (of other people joining) and for whom a little of their own medicine would be a good thing.


78 posted on 11/19/2013 5:44:37 PM PST by MSF BU (n)
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To: mad_as_he$$

There you are, encourage bored relatives overseas to screw it up. Hell, half of Africa ought to be signing up for this.


79 posted on 11/19/2013 5:45:46 PM PST by MSF BU (n)
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To: MSF BU

Knock yourself out. Hope you qualify for Club Fed, because the other Fed prisons aren’t so nice. I will disavow you for your foolish and counterproductive actions, and distance myself and true Conservatism from your neo-liberal Anarchist bulls***.


80 posted on 11/19/2013 5:55:36 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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