Distributed Denial of Service. Basically, having a bunch of 'bots flood the servers of someone you don't like.
Thanks to LJ being synonymous with blogging in Russia, and current Russian politics, there are multiple parties over there who have reason not to like LiveJournal. Rumor has it that this time our service outages are courtesy of the Russian government tangling with anti-corruption bloggers.
While there's something to be said for supporting anyone's serious anti-corruption platform, there's also something to be said for having a reliable backup service when one does so.
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Thanks to LJ being synonymous with blogging in Russia, and current Russian politics, there are multiple parties over there who have reason not to like LiveJournal. Rumor has it that this time our service outages are courtesy of the Russian government tangling with anti-corruption bloggers.
While there's something to be said for supporting anyone's serious anti-corruption platform, there's also something to be said for having a reliable backup service when one does so.
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