Denied - A fair chunk of the blogosphers - especially some of the most popular sites, including the Northern Alliance's own Powerline - were hamstrung by a Denial of Service attack yesterday. The attacks are apparently traced to Al-Quaeda-linked hacker sites, according to this series of pieces on Winds of Change..
Check out the graph here; it took a huge gouge out of Instapundit's traffic.
Small Victory posts this.
UPDATE: Brian Jones says:
Now, I considered a posting yesterday in which I referred to the hackers as "pig-fuckers," which means that Lileks & I are thinking much the same thing. However, I'm not as nervous as he is. Unlike the radar blip in Alaska, a remote outpost in a '50's sci fi movie, this is obviously aimed directly at the pro-Israeli site. This is the invasion, not a precursor.I agree. my initial post on the subject this morning was more a way to break writer's block than a serious analsysis.Whoop te do.
This is the sort of thing that reminds me more of a "riot" on the "Arab Street" than an "invasion". It seems to be a bunch of Islamofascist-leaning script-kiddies wielding falafel-cutter viruses, the equivalent of throwing turd-bombs at Starbucks; eventually it'sll stink the place up, but no serious damage is done.
Posted by Mitch at October 22, 2003 06:44 AM