Comments | caledonius72: Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

caledonius72

Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS

Aug 04, 2011 20:52

Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS
For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

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livejournal, real life

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angstosaur August 4 2011, 22:00:49 UTC

I support this 100% - at no time have I been tempted to move to Dreamwwidth (partly because it seems clunkier and uglier than LJ) ... because of this, OK we had no LJ for almost a week, but if the Russian owners of LJ along with the folk in San Fransisco are sorting it out so that people who need a way of expressing themselves in an otherwise oppressive environment, the inconvenience is worth putting up with ...

I shall 'boost' this too!

caledonius72 August 5 2011, 07:29:13 UTC

I was grumbling about LJ being offline, but I had a nagging suspicion that it was a DDoS attack (again).

Can't let free speech trump frustration with my fannish obsessions.

I'm waiting for you to finish Red Herrings, and then I'm going to read it all in one humongous go, and then give you squee of the highest magnitude considered feedback