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2010-01-13 --Tech & Moderator Notes

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-13 08:49|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I've modified comments so they will only take three links within the text. That should make it less worthwhile to spam us.

Posted by Fred 2010-01-13 09:22|| 2010-01-13 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you for all your hard work over the years, it is truely appreciated

Posted by Oscar 2010-01-13 09:31|| 2010-01-13 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks Fred!
I'll hit the tip jar next week for ya! ;)

Posted by DarthVader 2010-01-13 09:42|| 2010-01-13 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, I can comment!

And Amen, Oscar, to Fred and all your helpers.

Why would the chicoms want to pick on Rantburg?

Posted by Bobby 2010-01-13 09:43|| 2010-01-13 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Practice for the Big Event? ;-)

Posted by gorb 2010-01-13 10:31|| 2010-01-13 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I REALLY wanted to answer your security picture correctly but you didn't have MMA as one of the answers.

Re:#4 Bobby, that's a good question. Fred (and all the wonderful elves helping) do you know if your attacks are unique to you or part of a larger pattern? (i.e. are they going after all/many/most popular conservative sites?)

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-13 11:25|| 2010-01-13 11:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to change the security pictures to ;

Worlds Biggest Killer of Human beings = Mao

Picture of brutal slaughter in what square?

stuff like that
things that hit home to every Chin.

reverse censorship

Posted by Mike Hunt 2010-01-13 11:30|| 2010-01-13 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Mike Hunt: More subtle and to the point would be a side by side of Mao and Hong Xiuquan, the "Son of Heaven" and leader of the Taiping Rebellion, that ended up slaughtering at least 25 million Chinese.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-13 12:10|| 2010-01-13 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Not surprised--even Google, who bent over and grabbed their ankles for the Chi-coms, has had enough of their hacking and stopped colluding with them. "Do no evil" meets hard, cold reality.

Posted by Dar 2010-01-13 12:28|| 2010-01-13 12:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Or Google looked in the mirror and recognized they were getting deeper into evil and still being targeted. "Enough."

Posted by KBK 2010-01-13 15:00|| 2010-01-13 15:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Ranburg: Commies and terrorists recognizing you as a threat is an honor. Thank you for your service to the free world. You deserve at the very least, a purple heart.

Posted by Chereting Snetch4156 2010-01-13 17:21|| 2010-01-13 17:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred (and all the wonderful elves helping) do you know if your attacks are unique to you or part of a larger pattern? (i.e. are they going after all/many/most popular conservative sites?)

Short answer: No.

Spammers are online thieves. Rather than pay a reasonable fee through ad agencies to hawk their wares, spammers steal bandwidth in order to make their money through advertising.

The really dishonest ones, the ones who can report back to a customer "Hey we just posted 26,000 ads for mal3 3nhanc3m3nt, pay this invoice.", even though the ads are in archives to be seen by very few people; they are the problem in rantburg.com at the moment.

My view is that the spamming is not officially sanctioned; Officially, the Chicoms have bigger fish to fry than rantburg.com

The second part of your question: I visit regularly a number of (IMO) top conservative websites ( redstate.com American Thinker freerepublic.com ) and none of them report DDOS attacks, nor have I heard of DDOS attacks on them since 2002.

No one DDOS attacks political sites any more especially ones with wide pipes. The old DDOS attacks earlier in the decade were easy marks intending to being down a shared server and a number of websites at the same time.

Nowawdays it is hard to gather the resources necessary be hammer an ethernet port anonymously.

Some of the *chans has the resources to do it, but none of the ideological opponents to the GWOT do.

Posted by badanov 2010-01-13 21:23|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-01-13 21:23|| Front Page Top

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