livejournal attacked?

[orangerful]

If you were wondering why Livejournal was up and down earlier this week, it wasn't just your usual site crash - they were being attacked! Crazy.

Originally posted by clari_clyde at post

I’ve been wondering what’s up with all the DDoS attacks LJ has been receiving lately. Signal boosting ingridmatthews:

Just in case anyone thinks LJ's downtime is just TPTB being incompetant, read this:


LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.


"LiveJournal, Russia’s most popular blogging platform, has been under a massive DDoS attack for the past few days. The attack has effectively wiped out Russia’s main refuge for unbridled political discussion, a hugely lively and extensive domain frequented by politicians, opposition activists and social commentators alike...


“The reason for attack is more than clear in this case — someone wants LiveJournal to disappear as a platform,” Ilya Dronov, development director at SUP, wrote in a post on his LiveJournal blog earlier this week. He said the hackers were hoping to push bloggers from LJ to social networks where “it's easier to fight individual users.”"


http://globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack


http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html

ETA, One more link, ganked from norwich36 about the importance of LJ to russian bloggers:

LiveJournal's DDoS and Russian Politics

Comments

[impalalove]

Thank you for posting this. I'd heard things, but wasn't entirely sure. Passed it on. <3

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the details! It's sad that Russia, or someone there, is still trying to prevent freedom of communication this long after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

[lostacanthus.livejournal.com]

I read about this earlier in the week! I had no idea LJ was so big in Russia!