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Well, you know. Twitter has put themselves right in the middle of a national uprising in Iran and so are facilitators or perhaps enablers of conflict. I don't
by pj 17y ago
Well, you know. Twitter has put themselves right in the middle of a national uprising in Iran and so are facilitators or perhaps enablers of conflict. I don't want to get moralistic or anything like that, but it should be expected that if you are helping one one side of a conflict that could potentially errupt into a full on civil war, that you are not immune to attack yourself.
I'm not saying this DOS or DDOS is related to the Iran issue, but I am saying that twitter has become a weapon of sorts, a communication enabler that benefits one side of a conflict more than another, so an attack like this is inevitable, even if this particular one isn't coming from the Iranian incumbents.
- el33th4x0r 17y agoThe timing is all wrong for that analysis to make sense. It's much more likely to be a script kiddie trying to build "street cred." Or an extortion attempt ("pay us, or we take your site down"). If I were an attacker, though, I'd attack for a bit, then back off, then attack, then back off, and so on. Intermittent disruption is far more annoying for the users than a sustained attack.
- axod 17y agoDo we really believe non journalists in Iran were/are using it en masse? What did twitter do that email/sms/irc/IM/forums couldn't?