This is my first diary - please be gentle!
It appears that Electoral-vote.com is intermittently down - just get a "White Box Enterprise Linux Test Page" when I try the site. Is the the result of a coordinated attack?
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[Update] It appears the site is back up.
When I visted the site earlier today, the comment section of the site mentioned that they had been having significant problems in the past week due to attempts to bring the site down and to hack into the servers:
The site has had technical problems repeatedly in the past several days and has been down several times. I didn't want to discuss this, but I don't want anyone to think the problem was an incompetent hosting service. Just the opposite. The site has been subjected to a full-scale, well-organized, massive attack with the clear intention to bring it down. The attackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-solid Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and hasn't crashed since I got it in May. While our troops are fighting and dying to bring freedom of speech to the Iraqi people, there are forces in America who find this concept no longer applicable to America. I don't know who is behind this attack yet (although we are working it), but it is too professional to be some teenager working from a home PC. Given that all the hate mail and threats I get come entirely from Republicans, I can make an educated guess which side is trying to silence me, but I won't say. And I won't surrender to cyberterrorists.
Does the removal of offending websites through hacking represent a new direction of the online political movement or is it something new?