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Squeezed-Out Blogger Blames the Kremlin

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Posted on Aug 7, 2009
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A “denial of service” attack involves flooding the target Web site with requests for information, thus overloading the site’s server.

A significant Internet “denial of service” attack Thursday directed at popular Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter may have been carried out or instigated by the Russian government in an attempt to silence a dissident blogger in Georgia. At least so says the blogger.

The Guardian:

The Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu, who was yesterday the victim of a cyber assault that affected hundreds of millions of web users around the world, has blamed the attack on the Kremlin.

Speaking to the Guardian from an office in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, he said he believed the denial-of-service strike that hit LiveJournal, Facebook and Twitter stemmed from an attempt to silence his criticism over Russia’s conduct in the war over the disputed South Ossetia region, which began a year ago today.

“Maybe it was carried out by ordinary hackers but I’m certain the order came from the Russian government,” said the blogger, whose monicker is a latinised version of the Russian spelling of Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia’s other breakaway republic, Abkhazia.

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By coloradokarl, August 7 at 2:09 pm #

If he is that important Putin would have him killed…..

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By coloradokarl, August 7 at 2:07 pm #

“I am so important the Russians downed the whole system to stop me!” bullshit….....

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