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[Phox]

I'm hoping for both. 

[Adios]

4chan knocked offline by denial-of-service attack
By Rob Pegoraro

A site that's been used to launch some of the Internet's more creatively malicious attacks has become the victim of one. 4chan, the free-form set of anonymous message boards behind such pranks as getting a racial slur atop Google's list of search topics and "denial-of-service" attacks against high-profile commercial sites, has been out of action since sometime this morning.

The site's founder, Christopher Poole (aka "moot"), posted the news on its status blog at 2:39 a.m.:

    Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.--an exclusive club!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/12/httpstatus4chanorg_site_is_dow.html

Oh, dear.  Either someone's hired the Russians, or some CIA nitwit has decided to lock horns with 40,000 bored nerds.

Either way, this is going to be good.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

4chan knocked offline by denial-of-service attack
By Rob Pegoraro

A site that's been used to launch some of the Internet's more creatively malicious attacks has become the victim of one. 4chan, the free-form set of anonymous message boards behind such pranks as getting a racial slur atop Google's list of search topics and "denial-of-service" attacks against high-profile commercial sites, has been out of action since sometime this morning.

The site's founder, Christopher Poole (aka "moot"), posted the news on its status blog at 2:39 a.m.:

    Site is down due to DDoS. We now join the ranks of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, et al.--an exclusive club!
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/12/httpstatus4chanorg_site_is_dow.html

Oh, dear.  Either someone's hired the Russians, or some CIA nitwit has decided to lock horns with 40,000 bored nerds.

There are at least a few so called hacker groups that are not particularly liberal and would probably see 4chan as an adversary. Just because they're geeks doesn't mean they're on the right side (points at Eric Raymond's views on Global Warming and laughs).

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

4chan is Ddosed all the god damn time, this isnt special. Its probably some bored hacker with a botnet who got B&.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

4chan is Ddosed all the god damn time, this isnt special. Its probably some bored hacker with a botnet who got B&.

Also a definite possibility

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

4chan is Ddosed all the god damn time, this isnt special. Its probably some bored hacker with a botnet who got B&.

Also a definite possibility

Note: I just checked and 4chan is back up. If you remember the severity of the Wikileaks Ddos then you can tell that this definitely isnt the government. 

Butthurt hacker theory confirmed.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad-application/assange-book-deal-to-save-wiki/story-fn6bfmgc-1225977520443

Assange got a book deal.

[Gray Jester]

There are at least a few so called hacker groups that are not particularly liberal and would probably see 4chan as an adversary. Just because they're geeks doesn't mean they're on the right side (points at Eric Raymond's views on Global Warming and laughs).

ESR has some crazy ideas about things that aren't software.
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Also, the govt. has no reason to DDoS 4chan;  they aren't any more of a threat then they have been in the past.  If anything, they make people feel like they're doing something without actually taking meaningful action.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

There are at least a few so called hacker groups that are not particularly liberal and would probably see 4chan as an adversary. Just because they're geeks doesn't mean they're on the right side (points at Eric Raymond's views on Global Warming and laughs).

ESR has some crazy ideas about things that aren't software.
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Also, the govt. has no reason to DDoS 4chan;  they aren't any more of a threat then they have been in the past.  If anything, they make people feel like they're doing something without actually taking meaningful action.

ESR has some crazy ideas about software too... they just happen to be ones thhat I like 

[Cain]

Actually, this has all the hallmarks of a US government operation.

I mean, think about it...most of the members of "Anonymous", whether the hacktivist or the lulz-seeking type, don't actually hang around on 4chan anyway, and aren't welcome there.  So naturally, the US intelligence community would conclude that taking it offline would lessen the pressure on Visa, Mastercard etc

I mean, they attacked Iraq to punish Bin Laden, after all...

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Actually, this has all the hallmarks of a US government operation.

I mean, think about it...most of the members of "Anonymous", whether the hacktivist or the lulz-seeking type, don't actually hang around on 4chan anyway, and aren't welcome there.  So naturally, the US intelligence community would conclude that taking it offline would lessen the pressure on Visa, Mastercard etc

I mean, they attacked Iraq to punish Bin Laden, after all...

[Adios]

Actually, this has all the hallmarks of a US government operation.

I mean, think about it...most of the members of "Anonymous", whether the hacktivist or the lulz-seeking type, don't actually hang around on 4chan anyway, and aren't welcome there.  So naturally, the US intelligence community would conclude that taking it offline would lessen the pressure on Visa, Mastercard etc

I mean, they attacked Iraq to punish Bin Laden, after all...

WMDSCUDMYDADDY!!!!!!!!

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

4chan is Ddosed all the god damn time, this isnt special. Its probably some bored hacker with a botnet who got B&.

Also a definite possibility

Note: I just checked and 4chan is back up. If you remember the severity of the Wikileaks Ddos then you can tell that this definitely isnt the government. 

Butthurt hacker theory confirmed.

http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r

Butthurt hacker theory double confirmed. Its just some hack the planet attention whore.

[the last yatto]

4chan is Ddosed all the god damn time, this isnt special. Its probably some bored hacker with a botnet who got B&.

Also a definite possibility

Note: I just checked and 4chan is back up. If you remember the severity of the Wikileaks Ddos then you can tell that this definitely isnt the government. 

Butthurt hacker theory confirmed.

http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r

Butthurt hacker theory double confirmed. Its just some hack the planet attention whore.

Isn't that a known alias for Adrian Lamo?

[the last yatto]

http://haikuleaks.tetalab.org/