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Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions While they’re back online now, for a while there, both the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America’s websites were under DDoS attacks from piracy-lovin’ 4chan members.
According to a news.com.au article by Peter Farquhar, head of Deakin University’s School of Information Systems Matt Warren has claimed that the recent trolling of a foul-mouthed 11-year-old Jessi Slaughter by 4chan users is a perfect example of why the Internet needs filtering. It’s scary that someone in his position could ignore facts so easily.
Last year AT&T blocked access to 4chan for about a day, due to a DDoS attack against the site. I’d love to hear Verizon’s reasons on why they’ve blocked the site now and how they’re going avoid the inevitable shitstorm.
Fresh from the Mouth of AT&T, who like his Lord of the Rings counterpart, wears creepy masks at inappropriate times is AT&T’s official reason they blocked 4chan. It was, as suspected, blamed on a DDoS attack from that IP address:
It’s indisputable at this point that AT&T blocked 4chan—what’s 4chan, you ask?—the cesspool that has spawned some of the internet’s greatest memes, like LOLCATs. We hear it’s because of a massive DDoS attack emanating from that IP address.
