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- Zippo, on 07/14/2009, -3/+23Well, if I was going to start a large-scale DDoS attack, I'd spoof and blame it on North Korea, too. Easy target.
- moliver21, on 07/14/2009, -2/+22We still don't know if it's really from the UK or NK or whatever. All we, as Digg users have, is what is fed to us from the internets, and we all know everything on the internets is true.
- TextingTina, on 07/14/2009, -1/+21Yikes...North Korea will be blamed first for everything now. If you are gonna play with nukes, you gotta bring some for everybody.
- gnatinator, on 07/15/2009, -1/+19This means nothing. The bot net can be located anywhere.
- DreadedWalrus, on 07/15/2009, -0/+15Yes, you're right. The front page of BBC News, for example, is nothing but...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
oh. There's one Afghanistan story there, about a private memorial for eight soldiers killed recently, a little bit down the page.
But surely their page on what's going on in the world in general will be nothing but back-to-back Afghanistan coverage?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm
Nope. Just one link, to a Have Your Say page, asking whether people think Britain can succeed in Afghanistan.
But then... surely their Middle East page, of all pages, must be filled entirely with Afghanistan coverage?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/defau ...
No. Not a single mention of Afghanistan.
So considering the BBC is the most trusted, most prominent, and largest branch of the British media, where is this unending wall of Afghanistan war propaganda? Does a single story about a memorial for the dead, and another asking whether people think we will succeed count? - inactive, on 07/14/2009, -11/+25Geez, the war mongering power elite continues to lie to us? Who woudda thunk it.
- IceX, on 07/15/2009, -0/+11Anyone who runs a botnet can attack anyone in any country they want, it doesn't make their government or the whole country responsible for it.
- superkendall, on 07/15/2009, -2/+11Here's a hint: An attack can be physically originated from one location while being ordered from somewhere entirely different! I know that is a difficult concept for you to grasp but please try.
- fandyboy, on 07/15/2009, -0/+8+1 DreadedWalrus, that made me laugh!
I too was perplexed by this "wall of... propeganda" comment. I guess to wowsah 8 dead British troops coming home to a warm welcome in Wooton Bassett is war propaganda. If anything the media coverage was anti-war.. - macmcraeart, on 07/15/2009, -2/+10like you can tell anything about who is behind a DDOS attack by where the offending computers are located. its not called the interwebz for nothing.
- DreadedWalrus, on 07/15/2009, -0/+7I do live in the UK, and have done all my life, apart from the occasional foreign holiday of course. Admittedly I don't watch ITV News, (or Channel 4 news, or Channel 5 news for that matter), but then the BBC is good enough for me. I can imagine your comments may well hold true for those other channels (and the Daily Mail, e.t.c.)
As for TV, I haven't watched any television news this past week, but your original comment did contain mention of the British media in general, and I just addressed the most prominent thing which could be double-checked by any non-British people reading this (i.e. the BBC website). If we were to discuss television news, it's just your word against mine for anyone unable to watch British TV news for themselves, which doesn't exactly make for an interesting read.
Edit: I just had a look, and the Daily Mail website is indeed more Afghanistan focussed. They cover the memorial thing instead, but go for the more sensational "'The real tragedy is my Dan won't be the last to be killed': Grieving families salute victims of Britain's darkest day in Afghanistan". They also have, as their top story in "Editor's six of the best", the following:
" Captured on film for the first time, the terrifying moment one of the Taliban's deadly boobytrap bombs explodes in Afghanistan
This is the picture that brings home the terrifying threat to Britain's 9,000 soldiers in Afghanistan "
There's three different Afghanistan stories on the front page, some linked more than once throughout. But then the Daily Mail isn't exactly the pinnacle of British news media now, is it? :) - fandyboy, on 07/15/2009, -1/+7I don't know where to begin with this comment.
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/15/2009, -3/+9You know it didn't make a lot of sense before why all the sites that went down were dentist sites, but now, well now it all makes sense.
- fandyboy, on 07/15/2009, -1/+6It wasn't me.
- powatom, on 07/15/2009, -0/+5That's just what we WANT you to think.
- anthropodeus, on 07/15/2009, -6/+10was this "researcher" north korean?
- Swipecat, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4That Vietnamese researcher also said "it needs more investigation to confirm whether this server was the final attacker server or not" and "It does not either bolster or undermine claims that someone has done the attacks". Yep, it's the Internets.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM ... - fancypantscz, on 07/15/2009, -1/+4Can anyone explain how a DDOS attack is any more 'dangerous' than the digg effect?
- bananacannon, on 07/15/2009, -2/+5Yeah! You tell 'em... though I'm guessing an American DDoS would be aimed at salad producers, evolutionary scientists & IQ test sites.
- dracoregis, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Here in the UK we did just announce some new digital ninja police force or something, so it could be us just with our training wheels on seeing how good we are. . . maybe
Be scared America . . . maybe - rmxz, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3What? Next they'll tell us that Iraqi biological labs weren't behind the Anthrax attacks and 9-11.
- Lambdino81, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2UK......America's oldest enemy?
- Leopards, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2According to an update on one of those stories the owner of the UK systems logs show that an IP address in Florida had used VPN to tunnel into his system, so the search continues!!
- sfrederiksen, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2Argh, you've hurt my ego!!
- BotchaMcCoola, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1But surely it was Afghanistan. Remmember that is the best place to launch "attacks" on the US.
- fandyboy, on 07/15/2009, -2/+3What if someone from NK simply remoted into a British PC to start the attack. ***** hell, I should work for the CIA.
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1PC World is using communist Vietnam as a source?? Of course they're going to say it wasn't communist North Korea.
- AmnesiacJack, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1As long as we all laugh together.
- xtraa, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Agent provocateur tactic: FAIL.
- fandyboy, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1***** OFF
- skipvt, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Me neither.
- GeorgeStone2, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1"And now here's a crazy man talking *****, over to you, Jesus Agdabul the third"
- wowsah156, on 07/15/2009, -6/+6Of course the british media will ignore this story and pretend that everything is ok. At the moment every night on the UK news is an unending wall of Afghanistan war propaganda that is just totally bogus. British newspaers and news programmes seem to have given up on reporting of whats ACTUALLY HAPPENING in the world.
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+0It's not a false flag attack when your flag isn't doing it.
- zjbird, on 07/15/2009, -4/+2if that ends up actually being true..
oh snap
..probably isn't though. - anthropodeus, on 07/15/2009, -3/+1so the attacks are from BOTH the UK and NK???
- wowsah156, on 07/15/2009, -4/+1Dreaded walrus you cant be from the UK since if you were, you would be able to see what the daily ITN and BBC tv news pumps out to its tv viewers for the last fortnight. And it has been all Afghanistan
Have you been watch ITN and BBC news broadcast on tv this week dreaded walrus? Do you even live in the UK? - edwardr3073, on 07/15/2009, -5/+2whats sites were infected?
- superkendall, on 07/15/2009, -6/+2How amusing that people care at all about the physical origin of a virtual attack.
The packets may have come form the U.K. The target was South Korean and U.S. targets on the day NK fired a missile they claimed was "aimed at the US". You do the math and figure out just who wanted to attack these two groups. - wowsah156, on 07/15/2009, -5/+1just to prove my point on the media coverage heres an article from The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/15/h ...
Its not given the prominence compared to other stories. - superkendall, on 07/15/2009, -12/+3Geez, Diggers ready, willing and able to leap to any conclusion that doesn't make any sense just because it proves "The Man" is up to something? Who woudda thunk it.
- RoyalFiat, on 07/14/2009, -15/+3The UK has been the nexus for disinformation and people manipulation for years.
Following is a short video expose on this subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vep0TGI96Mg - americanoboy, on 07/15/2009, -16/+2brits are butthurt cuz bisping got knocked the ***** out.
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