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[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Any idea where the attacks are coming from? Years ago stories used to circulate about zombie computers infected by a major Asian power that could be activated at any time for this sort of attack. Is this it? Or is it an excuse to shut down the Internet for a while?

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We really have no idea who it's from, as they can fake their IP address to be anything, so the location data from that IP number is borderline meaningless.

However it did match the pattern of the attacks we had a couple days ago, and we knew who initiated that. But this mass internet attack makes me think the attack yesterday may have been unrelated to the one a couple days before that.

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Probably gunning for internet anonymity under the guise of eliminating "anon bot IP's" . We're living in really fucked up times

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I will definitely agree with that.