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It puts me on edge that these idiots would pick such media-friendly targets to strafe with their clueless bandwidth wastage; not looking forward to the next round of "cyber security" laws one bit.
"Hey dad, tell me just one more time about how when you were a kid you used to be able to make TCP connections freely and without the connection first being authorized by the NSA." "Go to sleep, son."
I posted this news 15 minutes before this submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659263
Can someone explain to this newbie why mine disappeared so quickly, but this stayed? I don't have a problem at all, I just wish to understand the system thanks.
Off topic, sorry, but not sure where I'd ask this. I posted this news 15 minutes before this submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659263 Can someone explain to this newbie why mine disappeared so quickly, but this stayed? I don't have a problem at all, I just wish to understand the system thanks.
Hilariously, the massive media frenzy surrounding the site outage will send the site enough traffic to DDOS it, even if LulzSec never meaningfully impacted it in the first place.
My first thought too. I immediately tried to load CIA and then thought, "Maybe they didn't hack it at all but just put out their Twitter message to drive traffic at it?" Or more interestingly, if they were in the process of hacking or something and wanted the cover of a torrent of strangers trying to reach their site.
Would this effect happen so quick? I guess they do have a lot of followers, but I'd hope that even if all of them did what I did they could survive that amount of hits?
Confirming that it is indeed down for me. I wonder what the CIA are going to do, especially because LulzSec is directly targeting them now.
Confirming that it is indeed down for me. I wonder what the CIA are going to do, especially because LulzSec is directly targeting them now.
I doubt that the core of the CIA cares too much about it's public-facing website.
Off topic, sorry, but not sure where I'd ask this. I posted this news 15 minutes before this submission. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659263 Can someone explain to this newbie why mine disappeared so quickly, but this stayed? I don't have a problem at all, I just wish to understand the system thanks.
well one reason would be OP linked to an article, you linked to a site that doesnt load...
A broken link gets it immediately marked down? Makes sense.
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True, it's probably little more then a coat of paint on it's house. That being said, they're probably paying more attention to those that just threw eggs all over it, and if they chose, to act accordingly. Not like there woudl be much that would stop them.
I agree with the coat of paint comment but if we have learned anything about government agencies or large corporations being hacked in the past it is that their Internet security practices can sometimes be painfully bad. @Below and HBGary was a IT security firm after all...