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saoneFor anyone who's wondering, here's an update on last week's attack from The Moscow Times.
What happened last week was beyond the usual definition of hacking. It could only be called an act of cyber war against LiveJournal.
The victims of the first attack were individual blogs — coincidentally, those that criticized the current Russian leadership... “This (last) attack was so powerful that it didn’t even reach LiveJournal servers. It hit the servers of our providers, Qwest and Verizon, and for several hours their data centers were completely cut off from the world.” The intensity of the attack, which used thousands of computers largely in Latin America infected by a virus, was about four times stronger than the previous attack.
The political smoking gun is so obvious that it’s a waste of time to consider other versions. In Russia, LiveJournal is a unique Internet resource with about 5 million Russian accounts read by about 30 million people every month...
LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow.
“LiveJournal is now the main communications resource of civil society in Russia,” Tomsk political activist Victor Korb wrote on his blog...
One thing I particularly loved in the article was a Russian official (a commissioner for human rights, democracy and rule of law, no less) said early last month that an independent internet “might infringe on the rights, freedoms and possibly even physical security of the civilian population.”
There is not enough *headdesk* in the world to respond to that.
Keep on fighting the good fight, Russian LJ guys.
What happened last week was beyond the usual definition of hacking. It could only be called an act of cyber war against LiveJournal.
The victims of the first attack were individual blogs — coincidentally, those that criticized the current Russian leadership... “This (last) attack was so powerful that it didn’t even reach LiveJournal servers. It hit the servers of our providers, Qwest and Verizon, and for several hours their data centers were completely cut off from the world.” The intensity of the attack, which used thousands of computers largely in Latin America infected by a virus, was about four times stronger than the previous attack.
The political smoking gun is so obvious that it’s a waste of time to consider other versions. In Russia, LiveJournal is a unique Internet resource with about 5 million Russian accounts read by about 30 million people every month...
LiveJournal isn’t just a social network. It’s also a platform for organizing civic action. Dozens of network projects and groups mobilize people to solve specific problems — from defending the rights of political prisoners to saving endangered historic architecture in Moscow.
“LiveJournal is now the main communications resource of civil society in Russia,” Tomsk political activist Victor Korb wrote on his blog...
One thing I particularly loved in the article was a Russian official (a commissioner for human rights, democracy and rule of law, no less) said early last month that an independent internet “might infringe on the rights, freedoms and possibly even physical security of the civilian population.”
There is not enough *headdesk* in the world to respond to that.
Keep on fighting the good fight, Russian LJ guys.
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