Posted on 10/21/2016 9:41:28 AM PDT by Beowulf9
For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a haltor at least slow to dial-up speedfor many users in the United States.
More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.
How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Humm.. not sure why your raw IP to YouTube aren’t working (unless perhaps they don’t allow it).
I checked the Internet Storm Center and everything looks green other than hit on DynDns. No other unusual activity reported.
It’s definitely Anonymous.
As a side note, Twitter is not-so-slowly going down here in Kentucky. I now have a 9 minute lag on receiving tweets.
WikiLeaks is up. 25000 emails so far.
Gunbroker is back up for me
Verizon DSL in Delaware OK now at 2 pm EDT
Roccus, my good friend—glad to “see” you. I’m not around as much as usual because the political system in the U.S. is so depressing I can’t stand to pay much attention. I have to concentrate on my ancestry work and local activities to keep my spirits up. How are you doing?
Just read this on Twitter:
“West Coast has no access to twitter. What is going on? Is this a fore-warning of things to come? Trial run?”
Thanks, but credit goes to John. He’s done a great job setting up our systems.
Bkmrk.
This does smell like the work Anonymous. I think it is the kind of dramatic stunt they would pull, being quasi-anarchists and all.
Notice who is not being DDOSed? WikiLeaks.
That kind of surprised me. I would have thought that Hillary/Obama would have ordered the US Cyber Command or some other covert asset to shout them down by now.
I suspect they literally don’t have that capability. It requires hijacking a ton of PCs and I bet the US govt lawyers said no.
I guess its back to 1994. Thats when I got my first dial up modem.
ok... now it’s back
Other than joints breaking down (must be that magic 70+ thingy) things have been good. Finally sprang for a really good bass boat and my fishing buddy had to go and break his hip and get it replaced so I’m waiting for him to mend so we can get to the lake more often.
Life is what happpens while we’re busy making plans.
Wikileaks is an agile collection of servers in many locations. Hard to take them down, but the US is trying. In the meantime the US is trying to gum up the works. Most disruptive traffic today is coming from Microsoft offices.
Bravo, John!
Easy to take down internet or make it hard to get to sites if you mess with the dns servers and companies running them. It is on drudge, also here is a link for more info: https://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/ddos-attack-against-dns-provider-knocks-major-sites-offline-16977.html
The trial runs are over.
Yeah, I saw that on the Norse attack map. Even THEY have been down.
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