Dear LJ -

[kyburg]

I'd like to keep posting, thanks. Okay? Point of this exercise and everything? Right?

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

I think that LJ wants you to keep posting. They certainly don't want the DDOS. We shouldn't blame LJ and SUP for a group of $#@%^# that target their servers (if anything, it goes to show how LJ is promoting free speech).

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

What's DDOS? What's going on?

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. The term is generally used with regards to computer networks, but is not limited to this field; for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.[1]

One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.

Now, in the case of Livejournal, see
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/04/05/who_was_behind_the_russian_livejournal_attack