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Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets (www.dn.se)

Posted by timothy on from the meatball-shortages-severe dept.

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.

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  1. Re: Sweden gets what they deserve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  2. This might be part of the reason... by aralin · · Score: 1, Informative

    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...

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    1. Re:This might be part of the reason... by Archtech · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's quite simple: Assange raped a Swedish woman, and sexually assaulted another one. And now he refuses to face the court. He's a refugee from justice.

      In fact, Assange raped no one. He slept with two Swedish women, both of whom were so eager to do so that they bragged about it to their friends for days before and after. He raped neither of them, and in fact neither of them has ever said that he did. When the charges were first brought, Assange waited in Sweden - despite his busy schedule - until it was made entirely clear that the charges were dropped (because the women said he had done nothing wrong). He then travelled to Britain, at which point a wholly new prosecutor popped up (obviously politically motivated) and began saying Assange should be charged (again).

      Here is the BBC's "timeline" of the charges against Assange: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

      There are a couple of things missing from this timeline, however. They happened before the BBC's record of events begins.

      "In April 2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      April 2010: WikiLeaks published gunsight footage of the murders in Baghdad.
      July 2010: WikiLeaks releases "Afghan War Diary"
      August 2010: Assange charged with rape (although he had never before been accused of any such behaviour)

      The pattern is all too familiar to those of us who are familiar with the US government's methods in moving against anyone it wants to destroy.

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  3. Re:Sweden gets what they deserve by Mats+Svensson · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  4. Re:Sweden gets what they deserve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    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) :)

  5. Re:Sweden gets what they deserve by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1, Informative

    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.