According to Adrian Chen at Gawker, on “Today’s Wave of Cyber-Attacks“:
The popular blogging platform WordPress was definitely attacked with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, and it was sporadically down for the good part of Thursday morning. This is why you weren’t able to access your favorite local organic cooking blog. WordPress founder Matt Mullenwag said in a statement that it was the largest attack in WordPress’ six year history. And he added ominously: “We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs.” [Cue James Bond Music.]
Also targetted: the CIA (just the unclassified bits!) and South Korea. But, y’know, live by the sword, amirite? Chen, who is more or less Gawker‘s Speaker-to-Haxxors, adds:
Whenever anything weird happens on the Internet these days, fingers point immediately at the shadowy hacking collective Anonymous, responsible for this winter’s pro-Wikileaks attacks. But it’s unlikely they’re involved in any of these. For one, they would have already claimed responsibility via a thousand press releases and weird YouTube videos about liberating all mankind. For two: As fearsome as their reputation is, Anonymous lacks the firepower to take down a target as hardened as the CIA, or all of WordPress.
I blame Andrew Sullivan’s immanent decampment to the Daily Beast. Or possibly Donald Trump denigrating the Obama administration’s balls…
EvolutionaryDesign
For those of you denegrating Jon Stewart lately because he “didn’t support the Wisconsin unions”, I hope to Allah you’ve been watching the last week. Y’all seem to love bashing Stewart for his “smugness” but he has been righteous as shit for the cause lately. How about giving some credit where it’s due?
JGabriel
Interesting. Another site that’s been mostly down for the past 3 days is I-Blocklist, a site that provides free IP blocklists. I wonder if there’s a connection.
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JGabriel
BTW, who’s our new spoof-troll(S,TaT)? Any ideas on his/her actual identity?
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asiangrrlMN
@JGabriel: No. But, I’m loving her.
And, FYWP out of principle.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Well, young people, I am Nyquilled and baby powdered and in my best jammies.
Mention of Donald Trump reminds me again of Father McKinney. That man had the worst toupee I have ever seen. It was like a muskrat had decided to winter on his head – tail, teeth and all.
When we were at camp we used to sneak up and peer in his window when he masturbated.
Little Janice Thomson used to be able to throw her voice, because her father used to be in a traveling carnival, and he taught her one winter when he was out of work.
He used to take off the toupee and set it on top of the wardrobe before he got down to business. Then just when he got started, Janice would make that toupee rant and rave about his iniquity. It used to shout at him for “wrestling with his tummy todger”, and every time he would get up, put it carefully inside the wardrobe under some shirts and then finish himself off.
Even then, she was able to make it sound like there was a muffled and outraged squeaking coming from the wardrobe.
The police took the toupee away from Father McKinney after he did what he did to Sarah Powell and he got sent to jail.
It’s a pity, because I rather like the idea of the toupee sitting on the top bunk in his prison cell and looking down disapprovingly at him while he got rogered silly by his cellmate.
Happy days.
JGabriel
@Sarah, Proud and Tall:
So glad I live on the second floor.
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dollared
The DOS attack was me. The attacks will continue until I can use FW%$$%$ing Internet Explorer to read this F##$%$ing blog without having to refresh 932 F$^$^5’ing times.
And, I am driving to a coffee shop in Redmond every day to launch the attacks, so that eventually Microsoft will be blamed.
JGabriel
Sarah Powell?! I dated her! 1956-58.
I always wondered why Sarah seemed kind of skittish sometimes. Now I know it was all Father McKinney’s’s fault. That sick Irish bastard.
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Martin
Finally, someone is indicted on voter fraud: lying about their address. Oh, wait, it was the Republican who just won the Secretary of State job. Well, I’m sure they would have caught that if only they insisted on seeing old minority folks driver’s licenses.
JGabriel
@dollared:
Right click anywhere that’s blank on the menu bar. A context menu should come up. Make sure “Compatibility View Button” is checked.
Now, when you go to Balloon Juice, there should be three buttons to the right of the address bar. From left to right, their functions are “Compatibility View”, “Refresh”, and “Stop”.
Instead of hitting the “Refresh” button, hit “Compatibility View”. That should fix the page format with only one or two presses, instead of 932.
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Sarah, Proud and Tall
@JGabriel:
I’m not sure if it was the same one. Did she have a dreadful squint?
Yutsano
@dollared:
Other than that, Ms. Lincoln, how was the play?
And I think the Microsoft campus has like three Starbucks there.
JGabriel
@Sarah, Proud and Tall:
Well, uh, I though it was kind of cute. It made her look smart-like, as though she read a lot.
Which she did when we were sitting at the bar, drinking together. Sarah, with Henry Miller in her hands, me with Anais Nin, both of us smoking unfiltered Luckies and drinking red wine, while the jukebox played Otis Rush and Sarah Vaughn.
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JGabriel
Sometimes Martin Ross used to come in and give Sarah and me the stink-eye. Sarah and Marty used to date in high school, but she shucked him off for me after a couple years at Bryn Mawr.
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SRW1
@JGabriel:
Please execute a bit of discretion anyways, these damn kids know about the use of ladders.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@JGabriel:
It can’t be the same one. The only way the Sarah Powell I knew could have read Anais Nin would have been by holding the book above her head.
JGabriel
Yes, she did that too. Sometimes.
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Villago Delenda Est
@dollared:
Your problem is you’re using the piece of software shit that is IE.
Get Chrome or something less amenable to being compromised by parasite assholes looking to extort “virus protection” money out of you.
As for The Donald, I note that his “ballsiness” doesn’t extend to putting his “I inherited a few million from my dad” ass on the line in any military operation to include raiding the brothels in Subic Bay. That pathetic little sack of chickenhawk droppings can kiss MY veteran ass.
Villago Delenda Est
@dollared:
Your problem is you’re using the piece of software shit that is IE.
Get Chrome or something less amenable to being compromised by parasite assholes looking to extort “virus protection” money out of you.
As for The Donald, I note that his “ballsiness” doesn’t extend to putting his “I inherited a few million from my dad” ass on the line in any military operation to include raiding the brothels in Subic Bay. That pathetic little sack of chickenhawk droppings can kiss MY veteran ass.
stuckinred
@Villago Delenda Est: Alongapo!
middlewest
Has anyone mentioned to Sarah yet that Pride is a sin? The devil’s sin, in fact. Repent!
stuckinred
Need a nice morning wakeup, watch these fucking morons in Orange County and their vile protest of Muslims raising funds for food relief.
Mike Kay (True Grit)
@EvolutionaryDesign: Fuck Stewart.
First, he joined the ACORN bashing, and didn’t apologize when it was exposed as a fraud.
Okay. I didn’t like it, but everyone is lazy to a degree.
But when he equated the peaceful protests in Madison with the racist, gun-toting teabaggers, that was enough.
He’s more interested in his MSM-media-darling-halo, which requires him to say “both sides do it” even when they don’t, instead of actually, you know, being objective, that he lost me.
matoko_chan
Hai Anne Laurie.
Is this an open thread?
Are we still doing LoOGie Promo Week?
Because I want to recommend this EDK post.
Yearning for Distributed Jesusland.
Its Epic.
And alsotoo…..
From Same Sex Marriage to Marrying Your Cow; A Slippery Slope
How become EDK’s name is vanished from the upper right corner?
Did I miss a PSA?
matoko_chan
Cat got your tongue Anne Laurie?
Well….you know what Maya says.
stuckinred
@matoko_chan: Hey noodle head, look at the time stamp on the first post!
Ash Can
Someone’s no-computer-for-you-young-lady punishment time is up, I see. Damn.
Anyhow, FYWP hackers, eh? That probably explains why a few of us got sent to moderation yesterday for using words like “with,” “was,” and “the.”
stuckinred
Telling the story of how the New Left clashed with Big Labor to bring about the end of New Deal liberalism, Cowie is impossibly fair. Some accounts stress the conservatism (and racism and sexism) of labor bosses; others emphasize the New Left’s contempt for mainly white union members and its preference for what came to be called “identity politics,” the struggle of women, minority groups and gays for equal rights. Cowie reveals the extent to which both narratives have some truth.
matoko_chan
@Ash Can: but….where is teh EDK Glorious Conversion Reality Show?
Did someone change the channel while I was gone?
Nerull
@Villago Delenda Est: The problem is that the website theme is broken.
scarshapedstar
Adrian Chen wishes every day were Jessi Slaughter day, but you know what, it’s not.
Tuttle
As fearsome as their reputation is, Anonymous lacks the firepower to take down a target as hardened as the CIA, or all of WordPress.
And for his next trick Adrian Chen will dangle his wedding tackle into a tank full of ravenous sharks.
Anya
@stuckinred 22
Why were those bigots demonstrating on the first place? I mean, it looked like a private event. Some parts of this country are as fucked up and hateful as the Taliban. It’s disheartening. Those who voted for the two public officials should die of shame.
polyorchnid octopunch
@Anya: Here’s the big question. Is that video ever going to be shown on TV in their riding/district/whatev?
JGabriel
Mike Kay (True Grit):
Actually, Stewart kind of did apologize for that. IIRC, it was a segment of clips showing all the networks repeating the ACORN lies that finished with Stewart doing the same, cut to Jon live, looking shamefaced, and then a short, humorous, apology.
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DPirate
Imminent.