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Comment by zzleeper | Hacker News Reader

Is there a way to track those attacks? Do they come from random zombie boxes, or maybe the IPs are from somewhere in Virginia?

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It's probably a mix. Some people might be using Low Orbit Ion Canon or a similar tool, some other people might be DoSing with their botnets, etc.

I'd bet there are some Governments involved as well as individuals who dislike Wikileaks.

Since the DoS attack comes from so many places, it's very difficult to trace.

Governments would no be likely to use tactics like DoS attacks. If they were attacking wikileaks, the most likely methods would be using political pressure to get the hosting revoked. If they wanted (or needed) to use technical solutions, they would probably either attempt more direct attacks, or attack the dns and routing systems.

The Chinese Government has been using hackers/crackers against Google and many other organizations. I don't see why the Chinese Government --or any other Government pissed off at the present moment-- wouldn't do the same with WikiLeaks.

Sure, they might... but the point is that a DoS attack is pretty naive and ineffective way to attack the site.

Government handling of technology is often naive and ineffective...

You really believe the intelligence directorates of various top nation states are walking around jabbing glass ttys with sticks and saying "durrr"? Stuxnet, Titan Rain, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Keyhole?

It doesn't take a genius to know DDOS'ing isn't going to accomplish anything of significance, basically you just have to be paying a fraction of attention.

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