DDos Attacks

[neu5eeCh]

OK. Maybe in defiance of moderators. I think this is an interesting subject. Turns out that Wikileaks is down because of a massive DDos attack.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/01/5561895-ddos-attack-on-wikileaks-gathers-strength

So, my question: What does this say about the WWW, if anything? My guess is that the US Government is behind this. No comment (politics) on whether it's right or wrong. It's just the technical aspect that interests me (and what it says about the WWW and national defense).

It's almost as if some folks in the Pentagon are trying out a new weapon. We're seeing, in real time, the makings of an international battlefield and how a technological war will be waged.

Interestingly, the release of the Wikileak documents shows that the Chinese politburo was behind the hacking of Google's Gmail system and recently, a massive chunk of US web traffic was routed through China.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/us-web-traffic-rerouted-via-china-telecom-844836/

Interesting stuff. Game on!

[Dragonbite]

Here's an update.

WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/01/wikileaks.amazon/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+Reader)
(CNN) -- WikiLeaks has been "ousted" from server space rented from the U.S.-based internet retailer Amazon.com, the website behind a massive disclosure of confidential U.S. documents announced Wednesday.

[spoons]

I think that we'll have 20th century politicians, businessmen, whoever, fighting to control what they don't understand. On the other side, we'll have the young, technologically literate people driving the technology to allow more things to be leaked and spread. The internet is completely different to any "production" or media that's gone before it - almost limitless copies of things can be made, everything is connected in an instant. It will be the 21st century brains who see what can be done and will run rings around the traditional paradigm.

[KiwiNZ]

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