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Obama File Founder Targeted for Virus Attacks
The Obama File ^ | 18Feb 2014 | Candor7

Posted on 02/18/2014 8:14:40 AM PST by Candor7

Conservative Websites are being subjected to denial of service attacks and worm virus infection. In particular Freeper Beckwith is fighting this battle right this moment. The left is ginning up to limit free speech of Conservatives, treating them as they would terrorists, using sophisticated software likely provided by the Obama Campaign, with hacker research likely funded by Tax Payer dollars for Community Workers.

Whether we win in November depends on our success in protecting our internet speech rights.If anyone has techniques which would protect from these attacks, including encryption or the use of alternate OS such as LINUX, and mirror sites, lets get some resources together and help folks like Beckwith.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: ddos; denialofservice; scriptkiddies; theobamafile; virus
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To: OneWingedShark
Linux is only free if your time has no value. [Jamie Zawinski]

That's so much crap it's not even funny anymore. As you can see from several above posts, Microsoft charges for their crap OS and then you have spend time and money to keep from getting drowned in viruses and trojans.

I'd agree with you that just about any version of VMS can be a robust and secure system. Not nearly enough userland software for it that I'm aware of though.

 

41 posted on 02/18/2014 8:09:11 PM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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To: Candor7

Bump to shortcut this, for later.

Interesting thread.


42 posted on 02/18/2014 8:16:27 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: zeugma
That's so much crap it's not even funny anymore. As you can see from several above posts, Microsoft charges for their crap OS and then you have spend time and money to keep from getting drowned in viruses and trojans.

As I've said upthread — what we really want is a formally verified OS. There are technical reasons why any Unix/Linux verification would be prohibitive, mostly due to the time/effort of verifying C-style languages combined with the complexity of an OS — formal verification isn't something you can just bolt on, so most extant OSes can't realistically be verified simply due to the complexity constraint alone. (There are several languages that would actually help in such an effort to verify an OS: LISP, Eiffel, and Ada spring immediately to mind.)*

I'd agree with you that just about any version of VMS can be a robust and secure system. Not nearly enough userland software for it that I'm aware of though.

That's the biggest downside to VMS that I know if — much like Ada it tends to have fallen into its own niche, in Ada's case it could be a blessing because it already has a reputation for reliable and safety-critical programming… and that seems to be a trend that is/will-be as security is compromised by forces foreign and domestic, official and non. — the only reason I don't have a VMS box is because I don't have the monies for it. (But if I had a web-based business I'd definitely find the monies to move to VMS and Ada.)

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43 posted on 02/18/2014 8:57:13 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: JT Hatter

Love your site BTW. Modern pamphleteering is an interesting avocation , I am sure.

Satire is a traditional weapon against tyranny, and you weild it well.May Obema and all his running dogs be a wake up to everyone!

I bet your ISP earns its fee with your site! I hope it stays the course.Beckwith has been attacked for years, and they finally got through.


44 posted on 02/19/2014 2:11:42 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7
http://www.bing.com/search?q=webserver+security++hardening&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=webserver+security+hardening&sc=0-19&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=92052e3d5db647059384080b0cdd48e7

Hardening might not help with some DoS attacks but it can help prevent system damage.

45 posted on 02/19/2014 11:41:34 AM PST by theymakemesick (Please join the corpse, please!)
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