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.

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Republic of Abkhazia is an independent state!

[Anonymous Coward]

Historically and de-facto it's an independent state country with Sukhumi being its capital city. I think it's good that this recent DDoS will bring some attention of the mostly ignorant western world to the situation in these former soviet (not Georgian!) states (Abkhazia and Osetia). I would make sense for many people to take a sober look at what happened just a year ago to the thousands of civil people of South Osetia by irresponsible and criminal actions by Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and its government.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Coincidence?

[comrade.putin]

So this happens on the day the Georgian government releases the fabricated report about last year's conflict with Russia. Coincidence?

dude

[circletimessquare]

you can criticize tehran or moscow without being an american neocon drinking oil from the skull of a dead iraqi child

you can criticize washington without being a theocratic fundamentalist hypocrite or a mafiaesque imperialistic thug

both statements seem completely obvious, and i am repeating myself

and yet your entire spiel above operates on the assumption that i CAN'T criticize russia unless i am american ultranationalist

"I thank you for your rant, though. Obviously, I got under your skin. Now - do you even understand what Operation Ajax was all about, and what the consequences were? How about the Bay of Pigs fiasco? And, the CIA's operation with a shot up boat that got us involved in Vietnam? How many of our own sins are you aware of, and willing to admit guilt for?"

yeah, you got me: i worship gw bush as a god and i suck dick cheney's cock and i know absolutely nothing about world history and the usa is responsbile for nothing bad in the world and all americans are flowers and sing campfire songs of love

(rolls eyes)

all because i criticized russia

right?

pfffffffft

what a blind asshole you are. its so fucking predictable: criticize a government in the world, any government. instant reply: "well, america did..." america did what? rape children? decapitate pensioners? why does it FUCKING matter? america is the most vile evil country that ever existed on the face of the earth... and... and what? so you can't criticize anyone else without mentioning AMERIKKKA?

WHAT THE HELL DOES THE USA HAVE TO DO WITH THE CRIMES RUSSIA DOES?

i criticize nigeria, i criticize brazil, i criticize india, i criticize china...

"yeah but america..."

america what? why is it impossible in your mind that you can actually criticize a country besides the usa in this world, on that merit alone? without even mentioning the usa? why is it impossible for you to do that without thinking about the usa?

i'll tell you what it is, what you suffer from: you're ethnocentric. you are an ethnocentric american. yes, you really are

you know the blind stupid chest thumping american hillbilly who excuses everything america does? he's an evil moron right?

well, allow me to present the mirror image: the evil moron who blames the usa for every goddamn thing. he can't stop thinking about the usa

this is not intellectually honest of you

what is intellectually honest? a point of view of the world that is not biased for or AGAINST any nation in the world. the only morally and logically coherent point of view is a GLOBAL one

so when i comment on russia, or georgia, or china, if you are a blind ethnocentric person, you go "yeah but america..."

america WHAT????????? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT AMERICA

i'm not talking about the usa. is it possible for you to find the ability to criticize a place in this world without once thinking of or blaming the usa for something?

guess what: there are a lot of people and countries in this world, and they all don't revolve around the usa. yet, in your mind, they DO. it is impossible for you to think about any problem, or any country, or any peoples in this entire planet, without it leading back to something the usa did. that's you! who else is like that? in the mind of the blindly pro-american hillbilly idiot, it all revolves around the usa too. you're one and the same as he

who am i? i criticize russia, i criticize the usa, i criticize iran. i can do all these things, and i am not pro or anti american, nor pro or anti russian, nor pro or anti iranian. i am intellectually honest

you, you're not intellectually honest. you're a prejudiced, obsessed moron

i'll say it again, maybe it will sink into your thick skull:

there are a lot of people and countries in this world, and they all don't revolve around the usa

"yeah, but america..."

lol

fucking pathetic