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

[alto2.livejournal.com]

You certainly have a point, though if you look again you'll see that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. I said I don't buy it--yet. I'd like something a little more like confirmation first. The first article is just reporting speculation, and the second link elaborates to say that the bloggers are not accusing "the government," they're accusing Nashi. Which...is also what I said. To what degree Nashi is an arm of the government is debatable to some extent. They certainly aren't official, but they think Putin is the Second Coming, so that may not matter. They'd be the perfect way of doing something unofficially--load them up with the idea that there are Bad People on LJ and let 'em rip. Though, when 4.5 million of your citizens use LJ, you gotta figure a decent percentage of Nashi would, too. ::shrug:: There are lots of possibilities.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right.
It's just that - well, like you said. Sometimes they don't even have to be the ones doing it, silent agreement is all they need and there's someone out there who'd do it for them. We get that specific strategy a lot in my country, too. *sigh*