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I came across an RT article that was trying to pin the blame on the hacking of the Estonian government on UIUC I presume you are avoiding a direct link to the

by nkurz 9y ago

I came across an RT article that was trying to pin the blame on the hacking of the Estonian government on UIUC I presume you are avoiding a direct link to the article so that you don't publicize it further, but ironically, when I searched on Google for "estonia uiuc hacking rt" (https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+hacking+rt https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+hacking+rt) I found that Google choose to ignore "uiuc" and "rt" in the first two results, and "estonia" and "rt" from the third. Any other day, I would have assumed this is just Google's relatively recent policy of assuming essential search terms are typos, but now I have to wonder if they are c̶e̶n̶s̶o̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ de-ranking results! Still, while I may just be lacking Google-fu, even when I search for "estonia uiuc site:rt.com" (https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+site:rt.com https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+site:rt.com) I get nothing. Maybe you could provide a link?

jcranmer 9y ago
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwihu7zN5s_XAhUKY98KHaSQB08QFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2Fcrimea-referendum-attack-website-194%2F&usg=AOvVaw2rh93rpJtLppaDifDtbqFK https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... It appears to have actually been in relation to the Crimean referendum instead of Estonian government.
- nkurz 9y ago
  Thanks for the link. While the 2014 article you linked does mislabel The University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne as "Illinois University", it conspicuously does not even mention the specific details you chide it for: population details, NSA vs NCSA, so many IP addresses, or number of airports. As such, it seems like an odd "last straw" regarding RT's accuracy in reporting facts. Did you maybe link the wrong article, or am I maybe I'm failing to understand your sense of humor, and in fact you are making a subtle joke about the implausibility of using apparent IP address location to assign blame for a DDOS?
  - jcranmer 9y ago
    I didn't read the link I posted directly (as I said, I will not give them the clicks), so I didn't verify that it was exactly as I recalled. The article I read definitely did mention the airports (since I spent quite a bit of time staring at the satellite view trying to figure out what they thought the third airport was), so it's possible I found a cleaned-up version of the article when trying to find it again. (FWIW, the town is Champaign, not Champagne).

by nkurz 9y ago

jcranmer 9y ago

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwihu7zN5s_XAhUKY98KHaSQB08QFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2Fcrimea-referendum-attack-website-194%2F&usg=AOvVaw2rh93rpJtLppaDifDtbqFK https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... It appears to have actually been in relation to the Crimean referendum instead of Estonian government.

nkurz 9y ago
Thanks for the link. While the 2014 article you linked does mislabel The University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne as "Illinois University", it conspicuously does not even mention the specific details you chide it for: population details, NSA vs NCSA, so many IP addresses, or number of airports. As such, it seems like an odd "last straw" regarding RT's accuracy in reporting facts. Did you maybe link the wrong article, or am I maybe I'm failing to understand your sense of humor, and in fact you are making a subtle joke about the implausibility of using apparent IP address location to assign blame for a DDOS?
- jcranmer 9y ago
  I didn't read the link I posted directly (as I said, I will not give them the clicks), so I didn't verify that it was exactly as I recalled. The article I read definitely did mention the airports (since I spent quite a bit of time staring at the satellite view trying to figure out what they thought the third airport was), so it's possible I found a cleaned-up version of the article when trying to find it again. (FWIW, the town is Champaign, not Champagne).