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Posted on 01/03/2017 4:36:51 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
The popular right-leaning web portal, The Drudge Report, was briefly knocked offline last week. Incidents like this will only become more common until policymakers or tech companies get serious about fixing connected gadgets, also known as the internet of things (IoT).
In a since deleted post, the site’s verified @DRUDGE account on Twitter posted last week, “Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT? Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing],” as the International Business Times reported....
Traffic from the Drudge Report is gigantic. ...178 million visits in November and that almost 80 percent of that traffic was direct. ... URL directly into their browser or they have it set as the page their browser opens upon launch.
The importance of Drudge to other publishers cannot be overstated. In addition to its ability to point a firehose of traffic toward other sites, the careful curation of its founder, Matt Drudge, acts as something of a seal of approval for sites seeking the approbation of one of the very few people in American media capable of single-handedly driving the national conversation.
For those who haven’t visited, the site is overwhelmingly devoted to links to other sites. Web analytics platform Parse.ly currently estimates that 0.7 percent of all referral traffic to sites it monitors come from Drudge. That’s three times more than Reddit, just 0.1 percent behind Google News.
What is a DDoS attack? -snip-
Who hit the Drudge Report?-snip-
If we did know more about the nature of the attack, the sophistication of the adversary could indicate something about its identity.... .... That kind of sophistication indicated that it was attributable to something more sophisticated than a cyber gang, perhaps even a nation-state.
Will DDoS attacks get worse?
It looks that way, but not everyone agrees. -snip-
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
The frightening thing is that the internationalists and their IT butt boys (Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, etc.) could just shut down any site they deem “fake” or “hateful” or whatever, and there’s not much we could do about it.
It is going on right now. Drudge site not loading.
Let’s hope it’s not Obama’s CIA testing their ability to blank him out for when they get into some dirty action against Trump.
Don’t forget Breitbart.
As of 10 minutes ago, it was down again.
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And Michael Hastings, Justice Scalia, and Seth Rich.
Rush was weak, as usual.
doesn’t sound like the author knows what IoT is if he thinks that’s what going on
Drudge Report is now loading here in NYC. It wasn’t about 40 minutes ago.
Never had a problem with internet. Suddenly it went down....they ended up having to do a rip and rebuild on the line...not physical...something they do at home office. Flaky things going on these days
Loading is spotty here in New England
And how about today?
Why didn’t they trade seats? what is a south Asian, I know what an east Asian and a west Asian is but what is a south Asian?
Drudge loaded for me.
Wow, Mariah Carey is more of an idiot than I thought. Takes no responsibility even for her loser attitude NYE.
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