Placing Blame Correctly

[shadowwolf13]

If a drunk driver plows into your favorite fast food joint and thus the place is forced to close while they repair the hole in the wall and the damage done to the kitchen do you blame the fast food for not being open

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[theferrett]

I can be angry at the drunk driver, and think that the fast food place, after having dealt with the SEVENTEENTH drunk driver plowing through its door this year, might have established better barriers.

I dig how difficult hackers are. But there are solutions that ameliorate they're going through; they just don't appear to wanna pay for them. Think Facebook doesn't get hit by hackers, too?

[kiwiria]

There's this aspect of it, but mostly I blame LJ for their radio silence on the matter. It took 64 hours (yes, sisxty-four) before there was a peep from LJ staff on the matter. They have a status page, an FB account and a Twitter account, yet for 64 hours all I saw was complaints from other users whom it didn't work for either and a deafening silence from LJ.

They'd have been better off stating up front "Sorry guys, another DDoS attack".

[elionwyr]

It's a warped sort of tradition amongst LJ management to not communicate with its users in a timely manner..

[kiwiria]

Yeah, and they're really doing themselves a disservice. If I had known the problem was a DDoS-attack I'd have bided my time patiently, because I'd know it wasn't their fault. Instead I got increasingly peeved that the only updates they made to their FB was to say "Profiles are now working again!" No, they are NOT, the entire SITE isn't working!

[shadowwolf13]

Agreed, and that's where the analogy kind of falls apart. Though I do think their barriers are getting better, the hackers are just getting better as well.