TIME magazine weighs in on the Denial of Service attack on livejournal:

[jeffreyab]

Why Have Hackers Hit Russia's Most Popular Blogging Service? http://t.co/hZ5yQwt via @TIME [Whoever it is its not the Russian Govt. since one of the victims is the Russian President]

I for one will hang in here until the bitter end and I hope the rest of you reading this will too.

Comments

[freetrav.livejournal.com]

[Whoever it is its not the Russian Govt. since one of the victims is the Russian President]

Doesn't follow. It could have been the government seeking to trash media that it can't control, just as is suggested in the article you link to.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

You know that Time article is dated from April, and it is about the last round of attacks, right?

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Did not notice the date.

From what I am getting from other articles though is the latest attacks are part of the April attack.

One long campaign against livejournal.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

It does seem not unlikely that they are related.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

More recent articles http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/hacker-attacks-paralyze-livejournal/441237.html


http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/75049/

It took $15,000 or equivalent to knock it down which means it was deliberate. I don't know enough about the Russian government to say whether the denial of service was actual policy or a black op done by an agency with out letting the upper levels know.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured it was deliberate, too.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of going over to Dreamwidth for the ability to post consistently, but if LJ is under attack, and it's the only way Russian bloggers can blog, I'm going to stay here to support those bloggers.

save your LJ

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

For those who want to save their LJ entries onto their personal computers, use this link:
http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

The CSV output is very fast, but the XML output requires clicking/saving each month's page twice instead of once.