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Minutemen S.O.S Forums go down on May 1st During May Day Virtual Sit-In!

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Minutemne S.O.S Forums go down on May 1st.
02.05.2006 08:37
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/115476.shtml

"The forums have been down for several hours and we have been working to find out what exactly the problem has been. We have received a ton of media attention the last few days and in light of today's events, we have been flooded.

We are also concerned about possible malicious attacks. Our apologies for this inconvenience. It is still possible that they will continue. Please
disseminate."

Sincerely,

Joseph Turner
Executive Director
Save Our State

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As you may already know, the Save Our State message board was recently inaccessible. Beginning in the early morning of May 1st, our opponents initiated a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. Our opponents entered in a URL that contained a program that allowed their computers to continually request information from our server, thus flooding our site.

As a result, our host took our page offline and this resulted in our
message board going "dark" for the day. We are doing our best to
mitigate this problem. Please note that this is an all volunteer effort and every attempt is being made to upgrade our service to protect ourselves.

However, this takes time and money and we are all in short supply of
that. Your continued patience is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Joseph Turner
Executive Director
Save Our State

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11028&hl=