Australian atheists sites are being attacked:
Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.
The “distributed denial of service” attacks flooded the websites with traffic, forcing them offline about 5.20pm yesterday.
As of this morning, the foundation had still not been able to restore the websites.
The attacks may be related to the Global Atheist Convention, which is being held in Melbourne in March next year. Speakers include Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and comedy writer Catherine Deveny.
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Does your host have mitigation plans? Your site could easily be on someones hit list.
Such nefarious plans. Making Atheist websites go down will make God exist.
Even better, it’ll make them right.
If their servers are Linux-based they could use CSF to help mitigate that risk…
It just proves how petty Christians can be when …. well, when an Atheist does anything.
They’re messing up with the rock folks. After this, those sites are going to be unbelievably prepared. After all, atheists are the smartest computer geeks.
I just wish prosecution were an option.
Form an alliance with 4chan/Anonymous, and organize a major DDOS attack on every major church site in America (^_^)
/b/
Uh… how do you know it was Christians who hacked the site? And why to you project it is directly related to the Global Atheist Convention? Making assumptions is what the theists are supposed to be doing, isn’t it?
Yeah, what if Goddidit?
It could have been somebody from another religion too…
Its entirely possible that the attack were perpetrated by someone of another religion or even some bored teenager. The Convention site and the AFA, it has been confirmed were deliberately targeted.
/b/
I guess you misunderstand citations & blockquotes.
And regardless, the citation never says Christians did it. Perhaps that’s your own projection?
Or perhaps he just read the comments that appear directly above this one? http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/10/22/atheists-sites-attacked/#comment-67838
I had the same thought when I read that — what evidence is there that a religious group was behind the attack, let alone Christians?
I understand why one would think it was a religious group; heck, I’d put my money there, too. But it’s no guarantee.
By his second question, it seems he’s talking about the citation, since the Global Atheist Convention is only mentioned in the article.
I think the “christian” thing was in response to a comment by Anthony Jacques, who made that (fairly reasonable) assumption. You drew no conclusions in your article.
Well, that will bring more press for the convention. And considering ddos attacks are pretty easy to put together, it may not be religiously motivated at all. It’s probably a 12 year old who saw an advertisement and thought he would go for it.
If so, likely a 12-year-old who has been brainwashed into some cult since he was an embryo (ie christianity, islam, ad nauseum).