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Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User
An anonymous reader writes "A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to yesterday's site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on, according to a Facebook executive. The blogger, who uses the account name 'Cyxymu' (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia), had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNet News." Here are user Cyxymu's LiveJournal Google cache and LiveJournal account (unreachable at this writing). Larry Magid writes on CNet that this individual blogs about independence of a breakaway region of Georgia. Macworld has some speculation in other directions on the motivations behind the DDoS attack.
Update: 08/07 19:52 GMT by KD : Cyber attacks on Cyxymu are not new. For over a year Evgeny Morozov has been calling attention to him as the first digital refugee.
Update: 08/07 19:52 GMT by KD : Cyber attacks on Cyxymu are not new. For over a year Evgeny Morozov has been calling attention to him as the first digital refugee.
stop and consider the real facts, not what news media is telling you!
The real fact is that Eastern Europeans like to be shit to each other. Russia and Georgia was just a variation on the theme.
"Welcome to our world. We are the wasted youth. And we are the future too." Yes, I know these are stupid lyrics.
Mod parent up. History almost always plays a major role in friction between nations. Osettians are Russians, Georgians are not. Georgia invading Osettia may very well have been the prelude to some good old genocidal ethnic cleansing. Just because Georgia's president went to college in the USA, and he's nut-to-butt with a lot of American politicians doesn't make him clean, or right, or even human. American has spawned it's share of despicable low life SOB's. Jim Jones, and Guyanna, anyone?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
georgia used to be part of the ussr. hell, stalin was georgian
and? that means its ok if the usa invades cuba? that makes it ok for russia to invade georgia? obviously no on either. so why the fuck do you believe any of your bullshit rationalization above means its ok for russia to invade georgia?
islas de pinas (the old name) had a lot of land that was owned by americans before cuba repatriated all of that land under communism. all those americans bought the land fair and square, so the usa has every right to invade... for justice!
the usa freed cuba from spain, with the blood of american servicemen, so cuba owes the usa big time, and the usa left cuba like a nice gentleman, left without a fight, so now cuba should allow the usa to take over islas de la juventud... for justice!
and other such pure fucking bullshit
and yet you believe that exact same bullshit, when russia says it about invading georgia. fucking amazing, your ignorant blindness
but there's a BIG PICTURE (tm)! yeah, there's a big picture you dimwit: invaders use any fucking reason they can think of to invade a country they want to. what, you didn't learn enough from your vast understanding of history yet you retard?
countries invade other countries all the time, and they always have their "reasons". hell, here's another bullshit reason for you: "because saddam hussein is building nukes". fucking laughable bullshit from the moment it came out of little drunk frat boy monkey gw bush's mouth. you understand that. you understand its bullshit
so why don't you fucking understand russia's reason for invading georgia is the same sort of bullshit? what the hell is wrong with you? there's always REASONS you dimwit. but when russia gives you its REASONS, you go "yeah, makes perfect sense". what a moron
and you keep fucking rambling on and on about operation ajax. dude! do you imagine i will defend it or something? it's like a parallel obsession in your brain, like the only thing you even understand about history. we get it, retard: the usa did something evil. the usa did something wrong. no one is disputing or denying that. what do you think operation ajax proves? that the ussr should now be excused because operation ajax occured? i mean, what exactly does fucking ajax fucking prove about russia invading georgia in any way whatsoever?
do you see how fucking twisted your stupidity is?
if you reply, i'm going to start babbling incoherently about how the dutch massacred indonesians in the banda islands to retain control of the spice trade. it was obviously greed, and yet the dutch say they care about human rights, hah! what liars and hypocrites, right?
and you have the audacity to criticize the japanese invasion of manchuria?
how can you do that, when the dutch massacred indonesians you fascist apologist?
huh?!
what the HELL do the dutch in indonesia have to do with the japanese in manchuria?
i don't fucking know, i'm just trying to play your game, i'm just thinking like you think
you're the asshole who keeps fucking babbling about operation ajax when we're talking about russia invading georgia
what a fucking moron
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it