FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality

Post by tomokasa » Mon, May 08, 2017, 11:17 PM UTC

Post by NegatioN » Mon, May 08, 2017, 11:20 PM UTC

tomokasa wrote: post #61

Did someone happen to save the John Oliver original video? It shows "This video is not available" for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak EDIT: was blocked in Canada, thanks NegatioN

Post by failrate » Mon, May 08, 2017, 11:27 PM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #46

unityByFreedom wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the official statement from the FCC, > “Beginning on Sunday night at midnight, our analysis reveals that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDos). These were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host. These actors were not attempting to file comments themselves; rather they made it diffi…

> "While the comment system remained up and running the entire time, these DDoS events tied up the servers and prevented them from responding to people attempting to submit comments." ...That doesn't sound like "up and running."

Post by mnm1 » Mon, May 08, 2017, 11:35 PM UTC

Post by komali2 » Mon, May 08, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

rdiddly wrote: post #47

lithos wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bloomberg radio just reported on this. No mention of an attack. Though they did quote an FCC spiteful response that receiving so much traffic just means they can't look at the comments. I'm still hoping that they eventually bring in an analyst to value the new proposed FCC rules to last mile providers, and what it will do to their stock.

By that logic, I'm excused from obeying their regulations. Too many of 'em. I don't have the resources.