BoingBoing Gets Taken Down by DDoS: Iran Cyberwar Guide to Blame?

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by Truemorist | June 16, 2009 at 10:32 am
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Cory Doctorow, founder and editor of the über-popular weblog BoingBoing, has reported that Boing Boing has been taken down by a DDos — better known as a Denial-of-service attack — on Tuesday.

#boingboing is down -- DDoS. We'll be up again soon, I'm sure.

Source: twitter.com



Could this have anything to do with the site's post from earlier today — a Cyberwar guide for the Iran elections?

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

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Jordan Yerman
Jordan Yerman

at 11:20 on June 16th, 2009

Server overload will not keep them down for long, no matter what the cause.

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René
René

at 10:43 on June 17th, 2009

up now, it seems.

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милeди
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at 05:00 on August 25th, 2009

Пока прочитал только эту одну запись, если и все остальное точно также интересно, то автору респект :)

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