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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Fail. Anonymous planned attack on Web today.
2012-03-31
NYT, so no quoting. Members of Anonymous appear to be planning to attack the Domain Name System today, March 31st. DNS is the mechanism that translates web page links to Internet addresses. The planned attack is a distributed denial of service, but DNS has a lot of redundancy so it would have to be massive and sustained to have much effect. If you're reading this, they haven't succeeded at the moment.
Posted by:lotp

#2  Sure, break DNS. And get the entire Internet mad at you. Totally genius idea.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-03-31 17:42  

#1  Since Fred's last foray under the hood, Rantburg page loads have been screaming fast on Safari. Perhaps the Anonymous pukes are attacking some other Web...
Posted by: PBMcL   2012-03-31 12:49  

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