Stumble It!
Unlike cyber-jihadists, who cover their faces with shame even as they go for the jugular of the free and the brave, Tiny faces both her enemies and prey with eyes wide open. Above, keeping her powder dry in a light rain this morning in The Little House Tuck built for her mother when she was just a girl.
"It seems like a lot of people are trying to shut up bloggers all of a sudden," writes Professor Reynolds at TCS:
It also doesn't seem to be working very well. One example from last week was a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against a blog, Aaron's CC, that seems to have irritated some cyber-jihadis. (We don't know for sure where the actual attackers are from, but the attacks originated in Saudi Arabia, and it seems pretty clear what they don't like about Aaron's blog.) Aaron's was shut down for a while, and some other blogs (including mine) were affected.
Our highest ranking ever in the Ecosystem, for the second day in a row. Can it last? It never does. Is it simply a result of joining our soulmates in the blogroll of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists?
We were sound asleep when the insidious idiotarians of Islamicism tried to shut our mouths up under cover of darkness. From our blog service last night:
Update, 11:36 pm PDT: Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time on May 2nd, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.
Everything seems up to snuff this morning. It was ever thus, but how pathetic that these impotent males continue to snipe -- "to shoot at individuals from a concealed place" -- at their betters.
Clearly Tiny is more of a "man" than those who attacked your site! Also better looking.
Posted by: Gayle Miller | May 03, 2006 at 09:53 AM
It is evident there are many who fear open-sourced information that can be delivered in a matter of minutes at the flick of turning a computer on.
They are afraid of the naked truth, aren't they ?
Write on, Sissy. The Internet really is power to the people!
Posted by: Tara | May 03, 2006 at 05:17 PM
Well, someone doesn't like blogs. And I have a feeling that someone is NOT in Saudi Arabia. It's just a little too easy to set up an attack like this from anywhere in the world.
I can think of several different scenarios off the top of my head that involve no one from the Middle East at all. If the attackers were from the ME - sending out a message via al Jezeera should have been SOP - because terrorist types LOVE to publicly proclaim their exploits.
So, while it's a vast annoyance, until they actually find the culprit, we have no idea who did it or even why. The answers to those questions may be vastly different than you would think.
Posted by: Teresa | May 03, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Just now came across this tidbit of news.... My condolences to your site and your website provider!
If you need it, I can make a call home and have Satchel, Newton, and Lucy Lucille help Tiny keep watch over you and yours... Sophie the Dog would try, but I think she's too easily distracted.
Posted by: Patti | May 04, 2006 at 11:00 PM
Apparently typepad trackbacks don't like me ;-) So Ping!
http://technicalities.mu.nu/archives/175231.php
Posted by: Teresa | May 04, 2006 at 11:11 PM
Our blogs were knocked out too, but came back the same time yours did.
Aaron's CC, however is down - apparently they hid some eggs in his php script and when he brought it back up, they hacked in again.
some Jihadi type going by the name of 20 took over the site for a couple of days - now it is just showing errors. So maybe Aaron or Hosting Matters is getting a handle on everything.
Posted by: Beth Donovan | May 05, 2006 at 06:26 PM