Posted on 12/29/2016 6:21:32 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Matt Drudge wondered aloud Thursday evening whether his popular site was the object of a U.S. government cyberattack.
Via the Twitter account for his Drudge Report, he said his news-aggregation site is the victim of the “biggest DDoS since site’s inception,” referring to a Distributed Denial of Service attack.
“Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT?” he asked, adding that there was “VERY suspicious routing [and timing].”
In a later tweet, Mr. Drudge said the “Attacking [was] coming from ‘thousands’ of sources. Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade,” referring to the Maryland base that houses the headquarters of United States Cyber Command and the National Security Agency.
Mr. Drudge’s news-aggregation site was one of the highest-profile outlets to take a favorable tack on Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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I am with you.
Did not know that.
Thanks for the info!
He probably aimed at Russia, missed and hit Drudge by mistake ;-)
Matt tweeted: “Attacking coming from ‘thousands’ of sources. Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade...”
Drudge used to have a link on his page for Freerepublic. I wonder why he took that down.
I disagree, sir.
I have personally been cited more than once in national Conservative conversations (radio and electronic print).
I’ve made a difference in other ways, too, using this as my platform. I’ve gotten ideas and good counter-attacks to the people who needed them, often through an intermediary.
Larry S (LS) is a prodigious influence on current events, and he uses FR primarily.
There are a few of us here.
It is still there.
Had it as of yesterday, because I linked there while traveling.
STASI LIVES!
It’s not gone. He brought it back.
Maybe Obama launched a DDOS attack against Drudge as a show of force, since it would be noticed instantly. Maybe a way of saying to the Russians “see what we can do”, and I sure wouldn’t put it past him to use a private US conservative site for target practice.
True, we were in the dog house with him for a few years, reasons unknown.
FR is watched closely and balloons are first tested here. There are several ways we have been influencing politics here that surprise even me in their rapidity in adoption. I have been here a long time and see our impact and direct quotes from FR in the media.
Dude,
You sure?
I consider this pretty “cutting edge”.
Breaking news, Weather,Traffic
And a Peanut Gallery Unparalleled!
I’ve got a lot bigger claim to fame than that.
But not only did I not do it here, I could not have done it here even if I had wanted to.
So I did it somewhere else, and rocked the world.
This place is OK for being tame and limited.
It’s not like FR didn’t have the opportunity to be influential; it could have been ahead of the anti-establishment curve by refusing to line up for McCain and Romney. It could have played a role in accelerating the process, and maybe saved us a term of Obama.
They already caught Obama’s Homeland Security hacking into voter registration records.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I remember several journalists having their computers hacked by Obama’s government a number of years ago.
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She was a well-known woman reporter. I remember she woke up at night to her computer being hacked. She was working on a story against the administration. She has been marginalized in typical leftist fashion, has a website and writes independently
Who is she?
I just checked and we are linked by Drudge on the far left, down about 10 cm, or so.
Matt Drudge has a link on his page for Free Republic.
If you have a decent vector to spread my message on this issue, please do. THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THIS 'REPORT' IS UTTER GARBAGE.
I'm, as Squantos put it, an SME on this topic (Subject Matter Expert).
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