Re "Denial of Service Attacks"

[Margit Johansson <margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
Here, in paragraph 4, is an example of what the experts say can happen with
internet registration and internet voting.  (OpEd News is a progressive news
service.)
Margit

Margit Johansson
303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx

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From: rob @ opednews. com <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:39 AM
Subject: OpEdNews -- OEN Under Attack
To: margitjo@xxxxxxxxx


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*We have been dealing with a denial of service ATTACK on OEN.* It shut us
down for hours on Monday, slowed us down on Tuesday and is still ongoing.
We've taken steps to deal with it, but these attacks are insidious, using
virus infected computers from all over the world. We're being assaulted by
computers in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Israel, Bulgaria, Brazil--
all over the world. It's taken up way too much of my time and wasted a lot
of users' time, causing lost submissions.

Best thing to do is do all your writing in a text editor, not on OEN. We
seem to have it somewhat under controlm, using a beefed up firewall. But
it's still not over. It's amazing it took this many years-- we're going to
celebrate our 6th birthday next month-- to be hit with one of these.

We're fighting on, keeping at all the issues we care about.

thanks for all you do,
rob kall



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