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Hackers Attack Twitter, Facebook also Slowed
MSNBC/AP ^ | 8-6-09

Posted on 08/06/2009 2:24:32 PM PDT by anymouse

A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.

Twitter said in its status blog Thursday morning it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cyberattacks; facebook; hacker; internet; twitter
Could the timing of this be mere coincidence to when the anti-Obama Deathcare tweets and FB posts start to go viral?
1 posted on 08/06/2009 2:24:32 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: anymouse

Not to worry. It’s just the Communications Czar playing with all the new gadgets at his command center.


2 posted on 08/06/2009 2:25:50 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: anymouse

And what was the story here yesterday? Anyone else have trouble?


3 posted on 08/06/2009 2:31:44 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: anymouse

Nope. I said it this morning. This is not a coincidence.


4 posted on 08/06/2009 2:32:19 PM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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Obama is using his snitch@whitehouse.kenya thingie to recruit his army.

I imagine he has sent out orders to the thousands of serious “hitler” youth he has in his database now.

He already had hundreds of thousands from his www type campaign in the two years up until ACORN and illegal fraudulent votes declared him King of The World to be Present in The United States.

5 posted on 08/06/2009 2:54:14 PM PDT by Syncro
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