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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2011-04-09 12:14 am
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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] clari_clyde at post

I’ve been wondering what’s up with all the DDoS attacks LJ has been receiving lately. Signal boosting [info]ingridmatthews:



Just in case anyone thinks LJ's downtime is just TPTB being incompetant, read this:


LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.


"LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, has been under a massive DDoS attack for the past few days. The attack has effectively wiped out Russia’s main refuge for unbridled political discussion, a hugely lively and extensive domain frequented by politicians, opposition activists and social commentators alike...


“The reason for attack is more than clear in this case — someone wants LiveJournal to disappear as a platform,” Ilya Dronov, development director at SUP, wrote in a post on his LiveJournal blog earlier this week. He said the hackers were hoping to push bloggers from LJ to social networks where “it's easier to fight individual users.”"


http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack


http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html



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[identity profile] rosalui.livejournal.com 2011-04-08 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes me feel oddly like I'm indirectly involved in Russian espionage, and James Bond is about to come swooping in.

[identity profile] q99.livejournal.com 2011-04-08 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that is interesting.

Also helps explain why I'm being friend-watched by three Russian journals (mostly filled with random articles) and got a post to a Moscow LJ group recently.

[identity profile] meanne77.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"got a post to a Moscow LJ group recently."

Oh, you too? I was like: WTF? and *ignoreignoreignore* even if it felt like a real community...

[identity profile] uneko.livejournal.com 2011-04-08 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
in the event of the worst, do you journal anywhere else? D:
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[personal profile] askerian 2011-04-09 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
I have journals on other sites, but I don't use them. D: Just for friendslists.

I'll post where i'm journaling at on my personal site and ffnet if LJ disappears in a cataclysmic ball of fire, so I won't be totally impossible to find.

[identity profile] uneko.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
yay!
also, might want to consider doing one of those 'copy the contents of my LJ to this other journal' things... just in case they some how managed to explode the databases or something. though, I doubt those would keep comments, hmm...

but, in case the data servers explode or something

[identity profile] uneko.livejournal.com 2011-04-10 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
damnit you already posted about this further down, I'mma idiot, lol. in my defense, couldn't get the damn page to load to see one way or another.
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Phantomshade, posting from her RP journal. Also, programming major.

[personal profile] lightofvengence 2011-04-08 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
This whole thing has been a big topic of conversation in my classes. I'm still not entirely sold on the "it's a Russian government-related conspiracy!" deal part of it. It could just as easily be one or more script kiddies going after LJ because dude, it's LiveJournal. You want to fuck with a blogging site that's big in any country, LiveJournal's gonna be on the short list. Sorry, we got pretty in-depth on this in 2D Game Development because we were studying Uplink as our game-of-the-day and kept segueing back and forth.

Either way I hope they at least figure out which machines are sending the server calls and can clean things up. Do you have backup journaling locations in case the servers prove robust?

Re: Phantomshade, posting from her RP journal. Also, programming major.

[identity profile] little-ursa.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
The thing is that first ddos-attack was on this person
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe?currentPage=all
it arouse suspicion
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Re: Phantomshade, posting from her RP journal. Also, programming major.

[personal profile] askerian 2011-04-09 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not 100% convinced by the "omg it's from teh RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS" but the "it's hackers!" thing is something a lot of people weren't aware of at all, they just thought it was LJ messing up on its lonesome again.

I have other journals but I don't really use them. Haven't mirrored my journal in ages. Mergh. It sucks that it won't mirror comments, all my memes have the important stuff happen in there, the posts themselves are pretty useless on their own. (not to mention my lovely adorable awesome feedback. T^T) oh my god dreamwidth imports comments too!!! :D :D :D Well then, ohoho. ... i'll wait a few days to import, though. >_>;
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