On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote:
> Simply Amazing, Reich Wingnuts apparently are trying to sabotage the > HealthCare.gov site. Why am I not surprised. > Did some research (this is the first I've heard of this, so I guess you can't count me in the "Reich") and found some interesting quotes: From http://freakoutnation.com/2013/11/08/denial-of-service-targets-obamacare-site-with-right-wing-message-displayed-destroy-obamacare/ "In a blog post published Thursday, Arbor researcher Marc Eisenbarth said theres no evidence Healthcare.gov has been subjected to any significant denial-of-service attacks since going live last month. He also said the limited request rate, the lack of significant distribution, and other features of the tools underlying code made it unlikely that it could play a significant role in taking down the site." And from http://www.zdnet.com/new-dos-attack-directed-at-healthcare-gov-7000022940/ "ASERT has no information on the active use of this software. ASERT has seen site specific denial of service tools in the past related to topics of social or political interest. This application continues a trend ASERT is seeing with denial of service attacks being used as a means of retaliation against a policy, legal rulings or government actions." The Verge speaks to an interesting comment (and one that's happened before) at http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/5081064/someone-built-a-tool-to-ddos-healthcare-gov-destroy-obamacare "The source is unclear, however, and it could just as easily be a subversive joke." Finally, a funny thread on the whole thing can be read here: http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-DDOS-Targets-Obamacare-Exchange-Site-With-Message-Display-%E2%80%9CDestroy-Obamacare%E2%80%9D?page=4 Some funny thoughts from the thread: "Not necessary to dos attack a site that doesn't work but still funny." "Why would the GoP want to attack a site that DDOS itself? You are grasping at straws and hoping to but the blame of a failed roll out on some mystery unidentified boogie man... oh it has to be the GoP's fault, because Democrats are perfect..." "in order to deny service a site has to actually provide service to begin with so DDOS of Obamacare = not possible" The editorial opinion of the author point the finger at "right wing activists". No reference for the source of the program or any specific group supporting it is found in any of the original sources. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
