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CT-Sen. 2010: Peter Schiff's website hit by cyber attacks
The Hartford Courant ^ | 2009-11-05 | Daniela Altimari

Posted on 11/09/2009 12:07:41 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Peter Schiff's campaign website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attackers, his brother and spokesman said this afternoon. The campaign has notified the FBI.

Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, had planned a "moneybomb'' -- a one-day online fundraising blitz -- for today, but just minutes before midnight, when the moneybomb was set to start, the website went down, his brother, Andrew Schiff, said.

"These are coordinated attacks,'' Andrew Schiff said in a brief phone interview.

It wasn't the first time the website has been hit, Andrew Schiff said. The campaign had been targeted several times in the past and recently upgraded its website.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.courant.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2010; attack; ct2010; cyberwarfare; ddos; dos; moneybomb; peterschiff; ronpaulrevolution; schiff

1 posted on 11/09/2009 12:07:42 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Isn’t he the son of Irwin Schiff the anti tax dude?


2 posted on 11/09/2009 12:09:16 PM PST by rahbert
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To: rahbert

Same gentleman. He’s gonna win CT.


3 posted on 11/09/2009 12:12:52 PM PST by BGHater ("real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it")
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To: bamahead; djsherin; ShadowAce

fyi


4 posted on 11/09/2009 12:14:08 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385
www.dumpchrisdodd.com
5 posted on 11/09/2009 12:17:46 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: rabscuttle385; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ..
"These are coordinated attacks,'' Andrew Schiff said in a brief phone interview.

Wow. Who does Dodd know that could pull something like this off?



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6 posted on 11/09/2009 12:22:13 PM PST by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: sickoflibs

Bump.


7 posted on 11/09/2009 12:23:44 PM PST by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: BGHater
He’s gonna win CT.

From your lips to God's ears!

8 posted on 11/09/2009 12:46:18 PM PST by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: bamahead
Who does Dodd know that could pull something like this off?

There are other Republicans running, maybe it came from the big government Republican wing.

9 posted on 11/09/2009 12:48:28 PM PST by murphE ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - GK Chesterton)
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To: murphE
There are other Republicans running, maybe it came from the big government Republican wing.

Not their style.

This has "techno-Democrat Obot" written all over it.


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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

10 posted on 11/09/2009 1:47:28 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: BGHater; rabscuttle385

Does Schiff have a strategy for outreach to social conservatives? Without one ... who exactly is he trying to expand the coaltion to include.


11 posted on 11/18/2009 5:33:19 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: bamahead

My guess Soros’ minions in Eastern Europe.


12 posted on 11/24/2009 7:12:12 AM PST by mpstan
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To: rabscuttle385

I haven’t been able to get to FR many times recently. What’s causing that? Also, it used to require me to login each new time I posted after being away. Now, I am constantly logged in. Could this change be causing problems?


13 posted on 02/04/2010 9:00:34 AM PST by Jude in WV
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