A Google Translation from an Israeli paper, posted 19 minutes ago. Looks like the KGB has it in for more than LJ.

KGB Online: the Russian secret service against Gmail, Hotmail, SkypeDomestic intelligence chief, who succeeded the notorious organization, claims that you encrypt the information on online services could harm the security of Russia - ( Read more... )

As a note, lj_maintenance has a map showing the IPs of all the computers that have been used in the DDoS attacks. If you want to check and see if your computer has been used as a "zombie bot," go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/, copy your address, and then check it against the list in the sidebar of ( Read more... )

From The Moscow TimesRussia, the country's main platform for uncensored political discussion, recovered Tuesday from its biggest-ever hacker attack - which bloggers said could not have been staged without state resources ( Read more... )

ETA: My icons are back! Yay!Well, this sucks ( Read more... )

I think I'm the only person not panicking about the 13 people overall--12 in San Francisco--who got laid off from LJ. a) I expected this when the servers got moved to Montana. Obviously some people in San Francisco weren't going to be needed for on-site work. This is not sudden. It's been in the works for a long time. SUP planned for it, and ( Read more... )

Hey! What happened to my Dystopia setup on my LJ--you know, the old setup that you can't get anymore? I didn't change it--why would I? The menu on the left side was a thousand times better than any of the new "improved" versions--but it's gone ( Read more... )

Yes, they did.

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/3846.html

The announcement last Wednesday was a mistake in regards to Basic accounts, as the change was not clearly stated, it did not allow for you to provide feedback, and went into effect immediately. Many of you have pointed out that ( Read more... )

This might help. I found it helpful, at least. cormallen (who is Russian) explains Russian business thinking. It doesn't make what he said any better, but it does make it more understandable ( Read more... )

Dear LJ ( Read more... )

For those who haven't seen this yet:

In which Annie said a few uncomplimentary things about Bush in her LJ and, last night, was visited by the Secret Service.

ETA:
Annie's admission of what she did wrong and clarification of a few important points.

thebratqueen's extremely sensible post on the subject. Go thou and read.

And OTF_wank makes a ( Read more... )