Even more reason why it should be released as a dump, and not walled in behind a website.
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The mofos want to hide their SVR agents working at ICE.
Since when did the first D in DDOS stand for DIRECT and not DISTRIBUTED?
Never, and attributing the use of Russian IPs to the Russian state for a DDOS attack is baseless speculation. This article is uninformed clickbait horseshit.
It is the Daily Beast. They're basically the Weekly World News of internet media outlets. Surprised they haven't yet reported on what Bat Boy is doing.
Well, it's slow, but I am getting past the homepage today, unlike yesterday.
Update: It seems to be working pretty smoothly for me now. A couple hangups, but mostly all good.
If it holds, I'd maybe take this post down to avoid confusion or discouragment.
let me know when to tor is setup
The DDOS is coming from inside the house
It’s pointless to make speculations about the origin of the attack.
Never ceases to amaze me that people refuse to believe or need to be reminded that Russia, China and others are actively and aggressively trying to undermine political and social stability in the US. Social media troll farms and bots, hacks of infrastructure, and apparently now preventing leaks of information detrimental to trump’s SS.
They do but don't forget the us government is trying to do the same thing by breaking with norms and stiring up trouble.
This can easily be a a hit by an us funded group or agency to prevent waking of the gestapo.
Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia
My mind went somewhere totally different reading "goon leak"
I hear Russia is very good with the cyber
18/F/Cali wanna cyber?
Why Russia would protect this administration interests like that?
It's ridiculous that people in this thread actually believe this. Why would they use russian IPs if it was a russian DDOS attack, lol. It would be like signing your name on a bomb threat.
What do you suppose they have to lose from such a brazen attack in defence of the interests of the leader at the expense of the people he hates?
Or poisoning your dissidents with a compound only used by the Russian government.
Why would they use russian IPs if it was a russian DDOS attack, lol
Because theres no reason not to.
Why would they care if they are identified? Who's going to do ANYTHING about it?
Also, maybe they WANT the world to know they can do things like this, like changing votes in an election. If you want the world to know you are in control, you have to demonstrate it.
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Well they paid for it...
To further destabilize the country.
It is serving their interests.
Would it not be more destabilizing to allow this leak to go through? Seems like by stopping this, they are propping up the government?
The government is not the country.
The sense of justice is being denied. The feeling of their oppressor being shielded is prolonged.
They want citizens boiling.
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Isn't it Distributed Denial of Service for DDOS?
It is. This is a quality article.
No shot Russia is actually behind protecting the US government from its own people.
From what I've heard, Putin wants "democracy" to be a slang term for chaos, go figure the rest.
Despots really want to make democracy a "failed experiment in human history", and restore the age of autocrats.
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The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault,
That's not was DDOS means: Distributed Denial of Service
...meaning it comes from so many different sources its very hard to block.
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Now why on earth would Russia want to halt the leak? Especially when they're so mad at us about Venezuela and the oil we're seizing? 🤔
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That's what torrents are for
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