Death to the Tea Party wreckers! Long live Obamacare! (freely translated).
Posted on 11/17/2013 5:55:46 AM PST by Beave Meister
Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Committee published a video on their Youtube page highlighting a portion of the committee questioning Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Act’s portal Healthcare.gov website in 2013.
Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.
Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .
The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"
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Oh yes! I believe Obamessiah! It is Right-wingers with [ooga booga] LINKs to webtools that can implement DDOS!
I believe, like I believe it was the f@cking 15 minute unfinished web video you guys blamed Benghazi on. Yes....
Libtards would be attacking the site like it was the battle of "Stalingrad"
Nobody in the media would mention the fact it was a "leftwing attack"
You’re right. It’s a bad idea and the accusation that right ringers are cause the problem is a outright lie.
I’ve got a question about this: if one cannot get onto the site, how does one hack it?
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There's servers on which it sits. Hacking can involve getting direct access to the server(s).
With some welcome assistance from our American FRiends.
Those 1-800 charges add up.
Proving that it was not a good idea.
NO - bad bad plan. This thing will take itself down.
We can only get the blame for it by this….
Which is preferable?
A liberal attack through government on our “current” healthcare insurance programs, which most people were happy with.
Or,
A DDoS attack on a liberal healthcare system which most people despise?
I’d say that, even if the DDoS attack had occurred, that it was done on behalf of the people’s wishes, while Obamacare was an act against the people’s wishes.
I’m trying to figure out how someone opposed to socialized medicine is “right wing” — socialism is an essential part of any right wing philosophy.
+1. No delays! Full speed ahead. Forward, comrades! Let not the sheeple go through yet another election cycle ignorant of the real pain and destruction that is ObamaCare. Let every citizen be truly informed and vote accordingly in November 2014!
Great painting, albeit a much romanticized of when the Redcoats opened fire on a group of men who desired only Liberty.
The real damage done by the patriots came as the Statists — er, I mean Royalists — were withdrawing to Boston.
Is this a high-tech version of "Someone put a racist comment on the dorm bulletin board"? Lots of MSM employees writing stories.. then sudden silence. Meaning of course that the black students did it themselves.
Civil disobedience. I think I’ll reread Thoreau today.
And how does this insidious tool work? Simple. It works by having a user go the the website and attempt to login. That's enough to kill it.
This whole article is just so much chafe to attempt to blame someone, anyone, and preferably those evil right-wingers, for the total pooch-screw that is Obamacare.
Death to the Tea Party wreckers! Long live Obamacare! (freely translated).
Agreed. Love it when left wing propaganda sites add on the “right-wing” moniker even though they have no proof and it is more than likely an attack by leftist groups. I direct you to history and the night now know as Kristallnacht.
JoMa
Looked through a number of the article out on the web covering this and I find the link to the “right wing” dubious at best.
Journalists making assumptions about the origin of the tool and it’s intended target.
Judging from grammar and spelling at the web site where one downloads this tool, it looks to come from the left more than the right based on my experience reading leftwing sites versus right wing sites.
Right wingers have a better vocabulary and express themselves much better using the written word.
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