Well, Damn

[clocketpatch]

You've probably already heard, but LJ's recent DoS attacks are apparently being perpetuated by the Russian government in order to force anti-corruption bloggers onto other websites where they can be more easily shut down.

I should also mention that there was a key-logger on lj that tried getting past my Firewall just shortly before all of this began, so do be making sure you've got anti-virus/a good firewall/adBlock people. Since the aim of these attacks seems to be shutting to site off permanently, copying your journal to somewhere like DW is probably a good idea. I've got one invite if anyone wants it.

All that said... this makes me fonder of LJ then I've been since the whole Facebook debacle. In the interest of freedom of speech (and, let's not lie, my own laziness), I'm not migrating at the moment.


http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack


http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html

(links taken from THIS post)

Comments

[clocketpatch]

You gave the link to the Nashi giant birthday blanket right? I hadn't heard of the group before, but based on that level of craziness alone... yeah, I can see that.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was me. That was actually the first time I heard about them, and I was IMing with Nikita and sent him the link. His reply was basically The Eyeroll You Could See From Moscow with Typical Weird Nikita Russian Wisdom, which I paraphrased (though it was essentially quoting) for a friend as:

He says this is one of the brightest forms of evil and there is no reason to pay attention to it because it is just a usual evil thing. His advice is don't think about it, and don't pay attention. He says they are terrible from the idea point of view but the other groups are even scarier. "There is nowhere to go."

The scariest thing about Nashi is that they're all too young to remember Communist Russia, which means that they are the perfect vehicle to turn the place back into...Communist Russia.