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Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se)
Flu writes: Yesterday, at 19:30 CET, an unprecedented DDOS attack shut down both Swedish government sites and all major news outlets, including www.aftonbladet.se, www.expressen.se, www.svd.se, www.dn.se, www.di.se and others. The attack was announced in advanced in a tweet stating 'The following days attacks against the Swedish government and media spreading false propaganda will be targeted'. A large amount of traffic was detected from Russia. Tension between Russia and Sweden has slowly but steadily intensified during the latest years, causing Swedish relocation of military forces to strategic location and increased cooperation with NATO.
Here's your link of German Chancellor Merkel demanding that Mark Zuckerberg censor Facebook of 'anti-immigrant sentiment', which just so happens to be the same as 'the majority of my country, who do not like my policies'.
Assange could of course just go to Sweden and fight it out, he seemed OK to be in the UK before all this, but going to Sweden would mean extradition to the US?
Anyways, it was media pages that were attacked, not the government.
Assange is a wanker and got what he deserved. BTW the whole Russian lead is just bullcrap.
These sites are the largest in Sweden and still they are vulnerable to DDOS. So: ask Slashdot: how do you cope with DDoS? What are the best tools to protect yourself and what to do when the attack is on?
Actually, both government and media sites were attacked. It's misleading to simply say that Assange was in the UK. He was, but at the Ecuadorian embassy. The diplomatic status of the embassy prevented the UK from arresting Assange while he was in the embassy. Your post is quite misleading and inaccurate. And yes, going to Sweden might mean extradition to the US, provided the US requests it and the extradition treaty would allow for it.
No government sites, and many but not all major news sites.
It's a bit scary how easy it is to knock peoples main source of information offline. This time I don't think there was anything more to it, but in case a real attack is happening, cutting people off from what's happening is one of the first things that you do.
Could we use p2p in some form here, making sure that information can be distributed as long as there are people connected?
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. -- Harlan Ellison
Here is an article describing what is happening in Sweden with security services and press and might help to explain partly why this attack might be happening.
http://theindicter.com/paid-ag...
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
Actually, the papers that were targeted had mostly Assange-positive articles. And The current regime in the Kremlin, are those that has been yelling the loudest about how we all deserve to die for standing up to their ministry of lies. Fuck Putin! Sincerely, Sweden
If you have any accusations of the government doing any sort of propaganda then post them, insinuations have never helped against propaganda. Those links are not informative in any way, I would say that the second link is propaganda of the worst kind, and the first is made into propaganda from you by a strange context.
WTF are you talking about? As if the two events would be related in any way.
Probably the lefties must be brought into line.
Things like that are done by the swedish elite.
Another tactic is to "search for submarines". They really perform searches, even though there is no reason at all.
The key reason is that they are too cowardly to directly confront their lefty and commie politicos.
This was Russia again. They are always trying to crush neighbouring cuntries. Look at the three baltic states as well as Poland and Finland. Now Sweden is finally waking up to the truth.
Come on Mats, you guys are still just smarting from the Battle of Poltava, when you got as far into Russia as (roughly) modern Novorossia, and then were sensationally obliterated in one of the great battles of history. Matter of interest, why did you feel the need to invade Russia? It's not smart and it's not funny, and everyone who does it regrets it.
Unfortunately, they often end up with a lingering, festering hatred of Russia. Which isn't really fair, because all the Russians did was defend themselves.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Sweden is nine million people. Frankly, who gives a fuck?
Tell that to Genghis Khan.
SWEDEN YES
Sweden needs to take in more refugees, no matter the cost.
Historically Russians are a mix of Fenno-Ugric and Proto-Slavic people governed by "Swedish" kings, with later mix-in of Mongolian blood and governance.
In Finnish and Estonian we still call Sweden "Rossi" and the country east of us is "Veneja" (or Boat People) :)
You fucking dumbshits still going on about battles that happened hundreds of years ago? Who gives a rats ass?
Is the pay any worse when you post as AC?
Which isn't really fair, because all the Russians did was defend themselves.
The war started when the Russians invaded Poland. Also, Poltava isn't in Russia, it is in Ukraine. It is silly to say the Russians were only defending themselves when the war both started and ended outside their territory. And the Swedes only lost that day because Charles XII wasn't feeling well. There should be a re-match.
It was just commersial newspapers. Public service companies was not targeted and their web sites was not down during the attack.
Just saying it like it are.
Such profligacy.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Ask the president of Uruguay about persons of interest to the USA and going between countries.
Considering that there are people that have evaded the Vietnam War Drafts in Sweden that aren't extradited then it's not too likely he would be sent to the US.
Today Assange is a moot point anyway, he's actually not that important (he may think so himself, but that's another issue). Also realize that he was primarily wanted for a hearing. If that hearing hadn't yielded anything of value then he would most likely have been sent on his way. As it is now he basically imprisoned himself at the embassy. The time he spent at the embassy is also very likely to have exceeded any imprisonment by a great deal when it comes to a first time offense in Sweden. People sent to prison for 6 months are often let out after 3 provided they don't behave badly.
So it's hardly likely that it was Assange that was the factor that drove this attack. It's more likely that it had something to do with submarines or islamists.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
get real. A large part of the bot-net used is infected computers in Russia, just that. I understand why someone would want parts of Swedish media to literally shut up, because there IS a huge amount of bullshit propaganda coming out from them, but this is not the Russian government's doing, it's some bunch of hackers with access to a large botnet. They might as well be American for all we know.
You should hear some Americans talk about that skirmisch they call "civil war".
There's a level of irony that the confirmation this is the Russian state is the sheer volume of astroturf posts on here.
Just check the Anonymous Coward posts. It's truly comical.
you are a paid shill are you not?
Also, Poltava isn't in Russia, it is in Ukraine.
To be fair, he did say Nonorossia, which is Putin-speak for Ukraine.
The parent is bullshit, probably written by a Russian agent, modded up by a sock-puppet account.
This attack has nothing to do with Assange, at all. The current facts are the following:
The sum of all the facts is that Russia is preparing its military for a action in the west, and they are preparing their population for a war with Sweden by spreading disinformation and pulling up old historical crap, like claiming Sweden wants revenge for Polatava and what not. (In fact relatively few Swedes would even know about Poltava, much less give two shits about it), and preparing the way in Sweden by psy-ops to try to destabilize the society by sowing dissent and create tensions between various groups and to discredit it internationally.
The signs are worrying indeed.
So Sweden is the bad guy for trying to prosecute sexual predators?
Perhaps he should work with a more neutral country as Sweden is known for it stance on taking sides.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
That's still relatively fresh compared to the Russo-Swedish wars. The conflict has also been conserved in memory to a much higher degree.
There are no photographies, no memorials and extremely few - if any - letters remaining from the Russo-Swedish wars. Remember, the general populous at this time were still mostly illiterate and mail wasn't even a thing. Frankly speaking, I don't think we even know who most of the soldiers who fought it were, like their name, where they came from and in which battle they died. Those wars were something men went away to die in, in some place far, far away. Quite the difference.
Wish I had mod points and wish we were both were not AC's :). Recent events in Syria could also easily be seen as a geo political "enhancement" of current refugee crisis in europe, specially sweden. Putin is choking you guys in syrian refugees. The trick here is to keep the eye on the ball and not implode into right-wing facist constructs - cause thats excatly what he wants, thats the story he's been selling at home for years. Dont make the lie come true. Handle the crisis AND respond to Russia with force. Turkey have the right idea.
Further Assange never broke US law. He didn't steal the classified information. Manning did. He didn't reveal the classified information to unauthorized persons (he is one). Manning did. The US has no case against him, he never signed an SF-12 NDA regarding classified information. The old Intel community joke of I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you is wrong. It should be I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill myself is more accurate. A non-cleared person is not at fault when a person with a clearance reveals classified information to them.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
No, we're not. We simply don't care. The only people who care about the battle of Poltava are historians, and people in Russia who are so stupid and ignorant they think Swedes are as easily played as they are themselves.
Nobody but the attackers will ever know what propaganda are they talking about. Since the access to the sites is disrupted, nobody can go see the propaganda and verify its existence. When the attacks are over the interested part of the population have already forgotten that there was somebody who claimed the propaganda existing. DDoS is like the radio interference during the Cold War, ineffective.
going to Sweden would mean extradition to the US?
If the US wanted to get their hands on him, they'd have done it while he was in custody in the UK.
Yes, because governments and nation states are honest. What you see is what they mean.
Which is exactly why I continue to believe that America will do nothing to him. We have nothing on him. OTOH, Sweden does and may go after him.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
He didn't reveal the classified information to unauthorized persons (he is one).
Assange had need-to-know on the American classified data? That seems unlikely...
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
Modern DDOS are botnets. You don't need, and few have, a giant pipe from their computer sufficient to deny a company or government anymore, as they themselves have cheap large connections for daily business.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
And since he's not an US citizen he's the one outside the fence that did receive it. And if he did receive it outside US turf then he can at worst be prosecuted on that turf for something.
The only thing left for the US to do is to discredit him, kill him illegally or just stress him to do something stupid.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
We have nothing on him.
I wouldn't find that particularly comforting in his position to be honest. It doesn't make that much difference, at least in the short to medium term.
Invasion.
So Sweden is the bad guy for trying to prosecute sexual predators?
LOL Sweden welcome migrant rapists. Also Assange is not even accused of rape. Go spam your propaganda to Jezabel or some other trash publication.
"Considering that there are people that have evaded the Vietnam War Drafts in Sweden that aren't extradited then.." You think Assange is accused of something that trivial?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/20/the-baltic-elves-taking-on-pro-russian-trolls.html
guess what, the Russkies can't browbeat Sweden. so they try to isolate them. makes no difference whether it's state-sponsored or state-"oh, gee, we couldn't possibly have miscreants inside our borders" not-officially-sponsored. free interchange of ideas and Putinism don't mix well.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
It's likely that the immigrants did not flow into Europe before Russian bombing?
It's likely that the ISIS "is stronger" before Russian bombing?
Fuck you both for your stupidity!
Your second paragraph is full of errors.
The country is called Venäjä (Finnish) or Venemaa (Estonian)
It has no relation to 'vene' (fi/ee for 'boat'), but derives from a proto-Germanic word for 'slav' according to wiktionary.
Sweden is called 'Ruotsi' in Finnish and 'Rootsi' in Estonian.
The Finnish ethnic slur for Russians is 'ryssä' which comes from the Swedish 'ryss' (not pejorative in Swedish.)
There are no words that sound like 'Rossi' that would refer to either Sweden or Russia in Finnish.
Yeah, because Greenwald is really living a life in a work camp because of publishing all of Snowden's stuff? Nope, he is living quite comfortably in Brazil.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Yeah, just like the US did to Glenn Greenwald for publishing all that stuff Snowden gave him. I hear he is dying from all the hard labor they put him to.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Also Assange is not even accused of rape.
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...
Considering the only charge left is rape, how do you get to that assertion?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?