Time Magazine has an article explaining what's going on with the DDoS attacks to Livejournal, everyone should read it and pass it on, because this is kinda huge -- a cyberattack of this proportion, aimed at opposition political bloggers, that ends up taking down an entire blogging platform -- and pretty unheard of until now.
[And for once the downtime is not actually LJ's fault. I know, CRAZINESS.]
More tech details, and comments from the Russian side of the blogosphere can be found
here.
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In other news, T-Minus 12 hours 'til I see The National playing live at my favorite venue in Rio, OMFZ GO FASTER, DAY.