LJ outage followup

Turns out that there is a lot more interesting data about what happened to take out LJ night before last. According to this link and this one, the DDOS attack was actually originally directed at a company called Blue Security--which then redirected its main domain name to a TypePad blog, which then put Six Apart and all of its sites in the line of fire. Including LJ. For added giggles and grins, it seems that the Blue Security folks are themselves considered controversial. A PC World article about them summarizes what they do, describing something that one can argue is very similar to a DDOS attack.

Now me, I'm all for hitting spammers where it hurts. And I can't exactly object to the idea that if your site is under DDOS attack, you should do what you can to get the word out to your users--and a blog is a good place to do that.

But. Redirecting the attack and putting Six Apart and its sites in the line of fire? Not cool.

Wednesday evening miles: 2.4
Thursday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 944.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 486.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 24.3
Miles to Rauros Falls: 364.7

Kill the Messenger, by Tami Hoag

Picoreview: Not the best Hoag I've read, but unusual in that it's a Hoag suspense novel without much of a love story to speak of. Set in L.A., with all the glitz you'd expect of the setting, but unfortunately not quite enough substance underneath.

( Spoilers back here... )