Summary: (Distributed) Denial-of-service attacks or DDOS attacks have slowed down the site, but we treat that as evidence of suppression and fear (of what's to come and what was recently published), or accuracy (in reporting) rather than inaccuracy
DDOS attacks may seem like a topic we frequently write about. But we touch it seldom and very briefly considering how often we come under DDOS attacks. Almost every week there's some kind of DDOS attack against us, sometimes lasting minutes, sometimes hours, and sometimes entire days. Several days ago an attack lasted almost an entire day, slowing down the site for the whole day (sometimes rendering it unreachable or barely available; readers pointed this out to us) and when we fought back the attack intensified further, at a pace exceeding 10,000 page requests per minute. That attack coincided with a busy day (we posted about 20 posts that day) and it was exceptionally annoying because it interfered with site access when the site needed it the most. Well, it coincided, but maybe it was no coincidence. It's different. It's also difficult to pin-point the culprit or assess who's behind it (the motivation/association, not just the IP addresses). Someone said it was likely the EPO (we published some important revelations lately), but there's no evidence to actually support it.
"It's also difficult to pin-point the culprit or assess who's behind it (the motivation/association, not just the IP addresses)."Regardless and in spite of that nuisance, we're currently preparing some material about Microsoft (leaks). If people out there are so desperate to make us despair and silence/slow down our work, then we're probably on the right path.
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