Bloody LiveJournal!

[lillianorchid]

I hope this works as LiveJournal is acting up so badly for me atm. I checked their update-y thing and apparently they've blocked a ton of ISPs, which seems to be effecting me pretty badly here. :( I just thought I'd write while I can and tell you guys that I can't access much at the moment, especially my Inbox, so If you're waiting on a reply from

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[byslantedlight]

It's not lj that's blocked ISPs exactly, it's the hackers/spammers that are attacking lj that have caused the problem... I've not been able to get on for a few days now, but my lj seems to be back, my ISP has been freed - yeay!

So nice to see people around again, it's horrid not being able to chat to anyone!

[lillianorchid]

Like you, I've not been able to get on for nearly two days, but I seem to be able to load my inbox and friends page now so it seems mine has been freed too. :)

I didn't see any mention of LJ being under attack from spammers/hackers on their update thing-y. :O That's terrible! Why have these people got nothing better to do with their time? :(

[byslantedlight]

Their update thingie says The current problems are being caused by a sharp increase in malicious traffic which began on December 31. - that means spammers/hackers... It looks like they used particular ISPs for a Denial of Service attack thingie, so lj had to deal with it by mass-blocking those ISPs to start with, and only then were able to ...taking steps to make the list of blocked addresses more precise so no legitimate users are affected. And I know - sods! Except that there may be a political element, because livejournal is a Russian blogging platform that supports free speech in the country - it's been attacked before in order to try and stop people speaking out... I found a news article on a Russian website which said early this morning that The oldest blog platform LiveJournal still can not recover from the failure, which began in late December. Service is canceled on December 31 and is now available only to users of the U.S., for most Russians, the entrance to the "Live Journal" remains closed. The manual of blame "

[lillianorchid]

Wow, I didn't know it was that bad over there still. :( Let's hope LJ has beaten them off and that it doesn't happen again. :)

[hutchynstarsk]

Yeah, it's been acting up a lot! :o

[lillianorchid]

It seems to be okay now, running a bit slow on certain pages, but, fingers crossed, everything seems to be working now. :)