You may have noticed our site is a little pokey this morning. We do apologize. We’ve been fighting off what appears to be a DDOS attack since late yesterday afternoon, and while the site remains up, it’s slow.

If my post yesterday about Little Dog pissed off the bot armies, I’m sorry. Really, Skynet or WOPR or whoever you are, I’m sorry. You’re smart, I’m dumb. You’re strong, I’m weak. Peace?

Thanks for your patience.

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Anthony Hecht is The Stranger's Chief Technology Officer. He owns no monkeys.

8 replies on “Technical Difficulties – Bot Attack”

  2. DDOS on the Stranger? I wonder if it’s

    1) The Seattle City Council
    2) The Seattle Police
    3) The R71 Fan Club
    4) Who else have you pissed off lately/had Big Stories cooking about?

  3. Try a top kill on your internet tubes. It’ll force the attack to build up pressure and leak back into the attacker’s servers.

  4. Thank Microsoft for putting hundreds of millions of shitty software installations out there, allowing easy assembly and control of the botnets. Great work, guys!

  7. It’s probably Comrade Rossi and his Tea Bag Terrorists.

    They hate America and our Freedoms – especially the Freedom of the Press.

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