[liberationtech] Avaaz Cyber Attack Ends After 44 Hours

2012-05-05 Thread Yosem Companys
https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press_id=321 *Friday 4th May, 2012* *Avaaz Cyber Attack Ends After 44 Hours * *A Distributed Denial of Service attack on the Avaaz website ended after 44 hours yesterday. Initial inquiries suggest the attack was a 'call of duty' attack using old gaming

Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

2012-05-05 Thread Fran Parker
Totally agree, Zack! It's a tough world out there -- for Advocacy as it is for any other venture. Keeping the keel and rudder pointed correctly so the advocacy ship doesn't run aground is not an easy gig. Especially in such a fickle world where you can't afford to have anyone misjudge your

Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

2012-05-05 Thread Marcin de Kaminski
Thank you, Yvette. That statement still does not explain why the donation is needed (since their system could stand the attack). Marcin Yvette Alberdingkthijm yve...@witness.org skrev: Hi all, Ricken Patel, who heads up Avaaz, asked me to post this on this list (as I brought the

Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

2012-05-05 Thread Yvette Alberdingkthijm
I am just the messenger hereā€¦:) Will suggest that they should join, if someone has not already. Thanks, YAT Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm Executive Director WITNESS 80 Hanson Place Brooklyn, NY 11217 phone: + 1(718) 783 2271 europe: +31 619031122 mobile: + 1 (347) 210 0152 skype: yvette-a or

Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

2012-05-05 Thread Robert Guerra
+1 Sent from a mobile device. Apologies for typos or brevity. On 2012-05-05, at 4:52 PM, Marcin de Kaminski mar...@dekaminski.se wrote: Thank you, Yvette. That statement still does not explain why the donation is needed (since their system could stand the attack). Marcin Yvette