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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.
That's what Sweden deserves for their persecution of Julian Assange. Serves them right to incur the wrath of others. By the way, there's no way to know the traffic is really from Russia because no person with half a clue about computers would engage in a DDoS attack using their own computer or network.
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'.
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?
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?
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Yeah, it be them moslem who shut down the network by yelling 'ALAHUBER'
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.
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.
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.
Sweden is nine million people. Frankly, who gives a fuck?
SWEDEN YES
Sweden needs to take in more refugees, no matter the cost.
Is the pay any worse when you post as AC?
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
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.
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.
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.
Invasion.
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?