The AP reports a massive DDoS attack against the official royal wedding site was thwarted, allowing millins of gawking crown-lusters from around the world to live vicariously through Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose happiness and destined glory is ordained by Divine Right. Private think tank Royal United Services Institute helped repel the onslaught, which I can only dream would have resulted in something wonderful like a giant penis GIF superimposed over the nuptial website. Apparently, the scheme was organised in part by a 16-year-old. If this were 500 years ago, that teen’s head would be rolling around the bottom of the Tower of London. The good old days. [AP]
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Mandroid
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 9:20 AMWe will fight them on the beaches.
We shall fight them at the firewall, the router and the ports.
We shall never surrender.
Gabriel
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 11:47 AMDamn. A giant penis GIF would of made it interesting
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 2:27 PMHow would you have noticed the difference between that and William’s head?
Christian
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 2:28 PMthat’s just crass
Morkai
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 4:47 PMWelcome to the Internet.
AAron
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 3:35 PMUnlikely he would have been beheaded at the tower. Only people of importance were executed at the tower, most people were hung on Tower hill overlooking the tower. And if he was excuted at the Tower of London it would have been outdoors within the walls of the Tower so his head wouldn’t have been rolling around the “bottom” of the Tower – while there is a tower called the White Tower within the walls the Tower of London is really a castle and not a tower…