Technical Difficulties (update)

Here’s some discussion of the DoS attack on HM, and who was affected, who was behind the attack, including some chortling over it (be sure and check the charming subject line).

There’s a lot of talk flitting around about maintaining “backup” sites, either mirrors of home sites or else normally-unused web pages/blogs that folks could check out if the main site was down. I don’t have such an urgency to blog that a thing like that’s necessary … yet.

There’s also been a lot of talk about, “Well, jeez, folks, don’t say anything that might rock the boat or draw an attack down on yourself and your neighbors.” While I agree that we have to be responsible for how our actions affect others, we also have to be responsible as to the result of our inaction, of our self-censorship. If attacks like this are occuring because of expressions of free speech, then all speech is in danger, and self-censorship simply gives in first.

Feh.