Slashdot Mirror
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.
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.
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.
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.
Note to Facebook administration: we really badly need a moderation score of "Irony". It's used a lot, and I feel all too often unrecognised by some.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
Tell that to Genghis Khan.
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?
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
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.
The US have 10 states that have a larger population than Sweden (9,858,794 at January 31st 2016).
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Pay zero regardless, no difference when posting as AC.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
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.
Also, Poltava isn't in Russia, it is in Ukraine.
To be fair, he did say Nonorossia, which is Putin-speak for Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
Invasion.
Facebook bought Slashdot?
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?