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Democrats Ask FBI To Probe Reported FCC Cyberattack (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: A group of Democratic senators is asking the FBI to investigate an alleged cyberattack on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website earlier this month. In a letter to acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe sent Wednesday, the senators asked the bureau to "investigate the source" of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. "Any cyberattack on a federal network is very serious," Democratic Sens. Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Al Franken (Minn.), Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Ed Markey (Mass.), and Ron Wyden (Ore.) wrote. "This particular attack may have denied the American people the opportunity to contribute to what is supposed to be a fair and transparent process, which in turn may call into question the integrity of the FCC's rulemaking proceedings," they wrote. In the Wednesday letter to McCabe, the senators asked to be briefed by the FBI on the matter by June 23. "We ask that the FBI prioritize this matter and investigate the source of this attack," they wrote. On May 8, the FCC claimed that it was a victim of "multiple" DDoS attacks. The alleged attacks occurred after comedian John Oliver spurred millions of Americans to file comments with the FCC in favor of net neutrality. "Many had attributed the website's slowdown to the volume of comments produced by Oliver's segment, but the FCC instead blamed malicious actors days later," reports The Hill.
Why wouldn't I be? Whites have accomplished so much, invented so many things, and brought civilization to most of the world.
Women's suffrage was a mistake.
Trump will put a stop to this. The FBI only investigates what he wants, not those deplorable democrats.
In Soviet Russia, website hacks you.
It's adorable they think Comcast isn't going to get their way.
The FBI looked at the DNC's servers instead of just Crowdstrike?
Why didn't they want the FBI when their servers were "hacked" prior to the election?
Why didn't they want the FBI to investigate why John Podesta fell for a phishing attack?
Oh yeah - because their effort to bury Bernie Sanders would be even more apparent and then they couldn't cry THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!! after Hillary! coughed up a hairball of a campaign.
Libertarians ask also
The input from the public is just a joke, Pai was put in specifically to dismantle any rights the public had. Just wait till neutrality is removed, it will be legal to deny access to all customers if a new appointee tries to get net neutrality back. Oh you will complain on line in a forum or start your own website? It will be legal to block access to those too.
The DNC refused to let the FBI investigate the email leaks but now they want them investigating the FCC? Lmao.
Help! All those citizens with opinions are attacking us with their words.
Remember the Stratfor hack?
If you are hacked the FBI are the ones to ask, especially the question "was it one of your informants doing the hacking" and "did you know about the hack"?
His email shouldn't be too hard to find, its on "mail1.trump-email.com"...
http://www.ljean.com/NetworkRecords/Log-Of-DNS-Lookups-For-mail1.trump-email.com-851.txt
It's not busy now, Russias Alfabank (217.12.97.15) has stopped sending emails, and Spectrum Health 167.73.110.8, has stopped too. Indeed pretty much no other organization looked up that address (Wholesale Internet are presumably the ISP). Odd no?
I'm sure they use Jareds Moscow provided secure link now, so Trump's email won't be busy.
We must have the FBI investigate these hacks on the FCC
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We must never allow the FBI to see the DNC's "hacked" servers!
The FBI will release a statement indicating that "evidence suggests" a DDoS attack but with no actionable evidence indicating who was behind it or what the motives were and that no further investigation is possible.
Really, nothing will change except that these Senators will be have talking points for a press conference or their next speech to voters about their affirmative stance on network neutrality.
A guy in a bar told me he knows exactly who did it; "Hillary Clinton and her employees."
Now let's see if CNN and the rest of the MSM goes after her based on that statement as much as they go after Trump based on accusations.
Fuck off traitor...
I've had enough of American turncoats rushing to defend Russia's crimes on US soil and the traitors who colluded with them.
Considering that there was a huge stream of anti-NN comments, many of which came in the names of people who are actually dead, something is off. But hey, let's dismiss their claims without any investigation because we can study the text and provenance of those comments without even looking at a database dump. We're awesome like that!
It as an automated astroturf campain that left thousands of comments by dead people and people whos IDs were stolen in favor or getting rid of net neutrality rules. that's probably what gave the impression of a ddos.
And it wasn't whitey that invented the wheel, dumbass.
Help me understand.
The DNC did not want the FBI's help investigating the hacks on Hillary's illegal email server. They did not want the FBI's help in figuring out the hacks on John Podesta's PC. They did not want the FBI's help in determining who murdered Seth Rich practically hours after it was discovered he's the one who leaked 50,000 DNC emails to Wikileaks.
But now they want a full, formal investigation into why the FCC mistook an overwhelming amount of unusual website traffic in the middle of the night as a DDoS attack before they heard that John Oliver had made his plea on late night television, even when the FCC quickly reversed its claim just hours after learning of it (even though the media did not give 2 seconds of coverage to their correction).
How is this equitable or consistent?
Why are people getting their news from John Oliver? If he is so concerned about the US then why, even after being married to a former US solider, is he still under green card residency? Nothing say you care about a country more that having a status of "I kinda want to live there, make money there, raise my kid there, but I can cut and run if it all becomes too much for me to deal with."
Getting your news from him is like getting your food from a dumpster. It might look alright but it's most likely covered in shit that you can't see that will only prove how stupid it was to do so later.
I thought the FBI was behind the cyberattack? Now they are going to investigate? what a load of shit.
We don't have that.
And Oliver is way more trustworthy than getting all your news from Putin.
"Please take the time to investigate in a matter in which the outcome benefits you the most." Yeah.....
If you have a server unprepared for mass comment submissions, how do you tell the difference between a DDoS attack and a flood of legitimate comments from outraged people?
... when the Administration was asked to investigate itself over the IRS's hostile attacks on the tea party and the NSA's listening to everything (including the opposition party and unmasking their identities).
Why should Republican presidents comply with opponents calls for self-investigations when other parties refuse?