The LJ Downtime Issue
Just in case anyone thinks LJ's downtime is just TPTB being incompetant, read this:
LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.
"LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, has been under a massive DDoS attack for the past few days. The attack has effectively wiped out Russia’s main refuge for unbridled political discussion, a hugely lively and extensive domain frequented by politicians, opposition activists and social commentators alike...
“The reason for attack is more than clear in this case - someone wants LiveJournal to disappear as a platform,” Ilya Dronov, development director at SUP, wrote in a post on his LiveJournal blog earlier this week. He said the hackers were hoping to push bloggers from LJ to social networks where “it's easier to fight individual users.”"
http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack
Wow. Just ... no. Fuck you, censorship douches in the Kremlin.
I'm sticking by the Russian political bloggers until the end, on Livejournal. And go LJ management for not giving in. As a nonnie said:
http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html
I can live with quite a bit of downtime when this is the context.
LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.
"LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, has been under a massive DDoS attack for the past few days. The attack has effectively wiped out Russia’s main refuge for unbridled political discussion, a hugely lively and extensive domain frequented by politicians, opposition activists and social commentators alike...
“The reason for attack is more than clear in this case - someone wants LiveJournal to disappear as a platform,” Ilya Dronov, development director at SUP, wrote in a post on his LiveJournal blog earlier this week. He said the hackers were hoping to push bloggers from LJ to social networks where “it's easier to fight individual users.”"
http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack
Wow. Just ... no. Fuck you, censorship douches in the Kremlin.
I'm sticking by the Russian political bloggers until the end, on Livejournal. And go LJ management for not giving in. As a nonnie said:
http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html
I can live with quite a bit of downtime when this is the context.