Why isn't the media picking up the reality that this concerted attack is even happening?
There has been a little bit of talk on some computer sites and
magazines that twitter and facebook were attacked, even some mentions
on the cable news shows. But this is MUCH bigger than just an outage
for a few hours. This is a systematic attack on the USA's most popular,
most widely used websites and I'm guessing, many, many more sites as
well.
The attack is being done by thousands of virus infected computers (bots). Those virus infections were
attackers in waiting. The attack is called a distributed denial of
service attack-- a DDOS attack. Those thousands or millions of
computers, taken over by viruses, all at the same time coordinate
connections to servers of the targeted websites. All those accesses at
the same time slow down the server to a standstill, so usual users are
unable to access the site, or it is drastically slowed down.
Once such a DDOS attack is initiated, the bots are activated from the tens of thousands or millions of virus infected computers, so they can come from scores of countries.
I call this attack on the websites that support our American digital
culture an attack on America. I call these attacks serious, dangerous,
destructive and expensive. I call on the President Obama to do
something about this. It is hard to believe that the US is so
incredibly vulnerable to such attacks. It is time something major is
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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