Spam War Takes Out Blog Services 315
munchola writes "Following on from the story about spammers attacking Blue Security's anti-spam system, CBR is reporting that Six Apart, which runs the popular LiveJournal and TypePad blogging services, has become a collateral victim. Six Apart told its millions of bloggers it had experienced 'intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com', before resolving the issue in the early hours of Wednesday. '[The spammers are] trying to rip apart the internet just to make our community stop fighting back against spam,' Blue Security's chief executive Eran Reshef said, adding that he knows who's behind the attack."
Pistols at dawn. (Score:1, Funny)
Too bad dueling is dead.
Two birds with one stone? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't see any down side to this, honestly.
Re:Is Blue Security going public with who's behind (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Two birds with one stone? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Is Blue Security going public with who's behind (Score:2, Funny)
(Because we're really smart)
Re:Blame fest (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Kill the spammers (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, quitting e-mail is a very realistic solution. And I suppose that if your home phone starts getting flooded by unwanted sales calls you should just stop using the phone?
And if someone starts flooding the emergency services with spam calls?
Basically, your solution to people deliberately abusing an essential service seems to be rolling over and letting them fuck you like a bitch.
I know you were just kidding, but some people aren't
I'm certainly not fucking kidding and I hope that makes you as sad as that fucking gay emoticon you used suggests.
Re:Backbone Subversion (Score:3, Funny)
Just not trying hard enough (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Guilty of what? (Score:3, Funny)
Redirecting a URL is not vandalism.
Re:Guilty of what? (Score:4, Funny)
awright ... fess up... (Score:3, Funny)
So which of you scumbags is responsible for this.