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

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5197,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/17\/back_in_the_sad.html","url_meta":{"origin":5167,"position":0},"title":"Back in the saddle again","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Oct-03 6:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the sites at Hosting Matters was targeted by a Denial-of-Service attack (think of it as a massive, automated \"ding-dong-ditch\" game) last night -- which is why, if you...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"dos.png","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/dos.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11556,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/03\/because_massive_impersona.html","url_meta":{"origin":5167,"position":1},"title":"Because massive, impersonal retaliation always works, right?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Aug-07 2:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"After all, the terrorists of the world have clearly been cowed by cruise missiles launched against them, by military strikes, and even by full-scale invasions.\u00a0 Yes, Tom Tancredo is on...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8736,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/dont_let_the_ba.html","url_meta":{"origin":5167,"position":2},"title":"Don’t let the bastards bring your server down","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Apr-06 11:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"My hosting company, Hosting Matters, got hit by a Denial of Service attack this morning, directed at one of the sites hosted there. 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