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As usual with this sort of "people doing things online" thing; a completely vacuous conspiracy theory. Here is the actual source article: https://blog.cloudfla
by scottlocklin 6y ago
As usual with this sort of "people doing things online" thing; a completely vacuous conspiracy theory. Here is the actual source article:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyberattacks-since-the-murder-of-george-floyd/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyberattacks-since-the-murder-of...
Here is the plot showing something allegedly different happening this month:
https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/2020/06/1.png https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...
What's the p-value on a t-test of difference there, cloudflare spooks? By eyeball there is no difference.
Then a completely unsubstantiated assertion: "The category with the biggest increase in cyberattacks was Advocacy Groups with a staggering increase of 1,120x."
What are these Advocacy Groups of which you speak? The BBC implies it's the NAACP or something; Cloudflare spooks don't say at all -for all we know these "activist" websites are terrorists, racists, anarchist revolutionaries, video game fans: nobody but Cloudflare knows, assuming they're not just making it up, or making a mistake in their group-by query.
Rather than reading this BBC report critically as the piece of nonsense propaganda it is, people on HN seem determined to fit it into whatever fantasies about Russians or Evil 4chan Racist Infiltrators or Weapons of Mass Destruction or whatever (mostly imaginary) bugaboos they're troubled by this week. Disgusting. Fools.
- 082349872349872 6y agothanks for the source article; it has the same graph as the BBC article, and references https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/ https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/
- gleenn 6y agoThat does read more like a Cloudflare advertisement, and they definitely don't add much in terms of who's being attacked. The graphs are pretty misleading with titles mentioning "since George Floyd's death" which would certainly give you the impression there is a relation but their data doesn't seem to back up that claim directly.
- krebs_liebhaber 6y agoIt's always an incredibly sad display when HN types talk about politics. The only thing they're less qualified to talk about is religion.