IOL hit by DoS attack

we have decided to stop the attack 2 hours early at 2pm, we have made our point
 
Stillie said:
i would if Mugabe wasn't in power and hadn't ruined the country... you wont find better people anywhere else...
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I met two Zimbabweans at university. Intelligent and very friendly people. Obviously they have to be intelligent to obtain a bursary to study in SA in the first place, I'm not denying that. But even their school system is ahead of ours, they still make use of the British A and O level system. I think Cameroon does as well, and the Cameroonians I met were also very intelligent.

You can't look down on a country's people because of their leaders.
 
anonafrica said:
we have decided to stop the attack 2 hours early at 2pm, we have made our point
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and what exact point was that?

That you disliked an article that was posted on a private companies website about Robert Mugabe?

You have achieved nothing, changed nothing.. and will probably now be tracked down and charged with crimes as per the ECT Act of 2002
 
Stillie said:
i would if Mugabe wasn't in power and hadn't ruined the country... you wont find better people anywhere else...
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Do agree with you that Zim is a beautiful place with largely well educated people, but the people are not that great if they either fled the country or allowed themselves to be bullied and grossly misled by this dictator and his ZANU-PF thugs. There is a clear relation between the spirit and mentality of a certain population and their leadership. In a large way a country, especially one that was democratic at some stage deserves it's own leaders.
In the same vein SA deserves JZ and his cronies. The art of democracy and open debate is to convince others that your point of view might be the better one. And lead by example. You will never pull some body over by demeaning, swearing, insulting or cyberbullying. This is a slow and laborious process, and what most people do in SA is hiding and hanging out with like minded persons of their own tribes to confirm their opinions and their status. And blaming all their and the country's ills on the others.But when you point a finger , 3 fingers point at you. So the political landscape will not change easily, in Zim and in SA. So I wonder if a DDoS attack will do any good to change the mindset of the Mugabe admirers. And change things for the positive in Zim.
In a previous debate on politics on My BB, well seasoned forumites tried to convince outspoken ANC supporters with reasonable arguments and references to info on the web. I commented that the issue is not so much a rational and reasonable one, but much more an emotional and tribal one. A bit later on the same topic, one of the outspoken ANC supporters admitted he found DA people arrogant, completely underlining my point. I had many discussions with clear ANC supporters, and once you accept in your attitude their presence and right of being what they are, they will mostly listen to your points, and very often start to accept your criticisms. Admittedly I am not native Seffrican, although more than a quarter of a century roaming around SADC countries.
 
anonafrica said:
we have decided to stop the attack 2 hours early at 2pm, we have made our point
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an open question to you....

should we shut down and attack new sites every time they publish something we don't agree with? i mean, i read most news sites daily and at least half the content I don't agree with or have some problem with.

but press freedom is something more valuable than our personal beliefs, and i believe what you did today amounts to censorship.

comment?
 
I do think this is a bit of "shooting the messenger" imho

Rather attack the online presences of zanu PF and their supporters.
 
Sinbad said:
Not really no. You can null route your ips at the isps but that also effectively takes you off the net
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Not necessarily. The F5 BIG-IP LTM module does mitigate DDoS attacks...

Anyway- with the amount of tripe published on IOL, I think that a DoS attack is a good way to divert readers to something that does not ruin their mental faculties...
 
Maverick Jester said:
Not necessarily. The F5 BIG-IP LTM module does mitigate DDoS attacks...

Anyway- with the amount of tripe published on IOL, I think that a DoS attack is a good way to divert readers to something that does not ruin their mental faculties...
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Well... Depends on the nature of the attack. If it's just big packets that saturate one of the network links, then the F5 can't do much about it.
 
racer said:
an open question to you....

should we shut down and attack new sites every time they publish something we don't agree with? i mean, i read most news sites daily and at least half the content I don't agree with or have some problem with.

but press freedom is something more valuable than our personal beliefs, and i believe what you did today amounts to censorship.

comment?
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That article wasn't news it was propaganda right ahead of the Zimbabwean general elections later this month.

South Africans might have become desensitized to the problems in Zim but the problem is very real to Zimbabweans.
If the DoS attach is justified or not I don't think South Africans should not cry freedom of speech seeing we are not directly impacted by Mugabe propaganda and him unjustifiably being kept in power.

There won't be independent election observers allowed in Zimbabwe later this month so it won't be a free election so to the discuss freedom of speech of iol in that context doesn't make that much sense.
 
Maverick Jester said:
Not necessarily. The F5 BIG-IP LTM module does mitigate DDoS attacks...

Anyway- with the amount of tripe published on IOL, I think that a DoS attack is a good way to divert readers to something that does not ruin their mental faculties...
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Interesting.. Have you used this hardware before?
 
nfbs said:
That article wasn't news it was propaganda right ahead of the Zimbabwean general elections later this month.
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ok, to be fair i haven't actually read the article as the site was down for some reason :)

will have a look at it later...
 
Maverick Jester said:
Yip... But as Sinbad mentioned, nothing that the F5 can do if the port channel is flooded and the switch locks it out. But this is where you need to be a bit more clever with your security patterns.
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BigIPs FTW, incidentally. I have 3 here - love them.
 
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