On Monday 01 Apr 2013 04:37:50 luis jure wrote: > on 2013-03-31 at 23:05 Michael Mol wrote: > > On 03/31/2013 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > > There was a good story in 'Guardian' : > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/29/cyberwar-spun-sho > > > ddy-journalism > > > > The Gizmodo article that Guardian article lauds irritated the hell out > > of me. [...] > > Whether a chunk of Europe dropping offline qualifies as "breaking the > > Internet" is an interesting question. > > i don't live in europe. i live in a small country in south america. i don't > read the press and i don't have tv. i'm mostly uncontaminated by the > debris produced by journalism. > > today i asked my girlfriend if she had also noted that the internet has > been very slow for the last week or so. perhaps it was a problem with my > connection. it was she who told me that the problem with the internet had > been mentioned in the news (unlike me, she does watch tv and read the > news). > > i'm glad for all the people who weren't affected. but whatever it was, i've > been suffering the consequences. so i'm more than irritated by the > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news".
I can't say I had noticed any slowness, more than the usual, but I did notice that I could no longer reach a number of websites, like this: http://www.nslu2-linux.org This lasted a day or two and coincided with this 'news' about DDoS, but I wasn't aware of it at the time. -- Regards, Mick
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