MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
|
|
|
From the Readers
- barefooted 8 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 9 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
Creative corner
- PeraclesPlease 10 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 11 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
- artappraiser 1 year ago
From the Dagbloggers
- Michael Wolraich 10 months 3 weeks ago
- Danny Cardwell 3 years 1 month ago
- Doctor Cleveland 3 years 10 months ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 2 weeks ago
- PeraclesPlease 4 years 2 weeks ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 2 weeks ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 2 weeks ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 1 month ago
- Doctor Cleveland 4 years 1 month ago
- William K. Wolfrum 4 years 2 months ago
TPM.com suffers DOS attack after publishing mug shots of 14 accused of being "Anonymous" hacktivists
By artappraiser on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 2:24am |So What Happened?
By Josh Marshall, TPM Editors' Blog, September 10, 2011, 1:29am
My note: If you check out Marshall's first link in the post, you will read that those mug shots were acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request.
URL:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/09/so_what_happened.php?ref=fpblg
- Add new comment
- 1735 reads
Comments
I know it's terribly wrong of me ... but this made me burst out laughing. Of all the tech departments to dump a DDoS attack on!
Well, Josh needed the profile boost anyhow ... he seems to be embracing it quite happily.
by kgb999 on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 2:43am
Well, the TPM Cafe blogs was too much for them to handle so they cut that out. Makes me wonder if they'll shutdown TPM on-line and just go the Twitter/Facebook route.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 5:29am
I think it would be safe to say it's a definite maybe TPM's DOS attack was as a result of their publishing the fotos of those "alleged" anonymous hacktivists. I suspect the true culprits are some other group ... imho - a radical extreme right-wing fringe tea-bagger type ... using the cover of the anonymous group to reek a little digital mayhem and havoc, perhaps as a trial run for what's to come as Nov 2012 draws near. The anonymous hacktivists are the perfect scapegoat or to use a techie term - honeypot - to lead people down a digital dead-end while the real perpetrators slowly recede back into the cover of the cloud. It's a perfect hit-n-run guerrilla tactic especially when there's another fall guy everyone will assume is guilty to take the heat.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 5:27am
My theory is that an Islamist radical group wants you to think that a radical extreme right-wing fringe tea-bagging group is trying to scapegoat anonymous hacktivists.
by Verified Atheist on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 11:40am
That's a little hard to believe ... no dead body count lying around to claim credit for.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 12:43pm
Actually it's an inside job by a CIC operative who tells them he's with the CID so they think he is really with the CIB.
by cmaukonen on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 8:51pm
Must admit it came to mind it could also be a group of angry TPM commenters who are also geeks in their Mom's basement, finally fed up & not gonna take it anymore with yet another change of the commenting system and the general quality level of such software systems and support installed nearly annually at the site. Masquerading as "Anonymous" because what the heck, the powers that be aren't ascared of commenters there, they don't even notice 'em, nor the spam. Wouldn't take credit for it, would rather have management think it's a bigger scarier club.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 4:50pm
It came to mind that it could be just completely incompetent SysAdmins at TPM who dropped the site themselves.
Occam's Razor. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
by PeraclesPlease (not verified) on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 5:17pm
To hell with Anonymous. This isn't activism, but thuggery. (We will punish those who do not serve our institutional interests, or anyone who crosses us.)
by Doctor Cleveland on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 1:46pm
Oh geeze. Josh aggressively moved to publicly embarrass people who may or may not be associated with Anonymous for the sole purpose of benefiting commercially.
That isn't journalism, but sensationalistic nonsense.
What the hell do you expect from the /btards?
by kgb999 on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 3:37pm
I considered opining on all manner of related issues after reading some of the above comments, but then I changed my mind after reading the comments over at TPMuckraker on Ryan J. Reilly's thread. (Reilly is the one who filed the FOIA request.) Because I think all the bases are pretty well covered there, with some intelligent if vehement discussion (atypically for TPM these days.)
One thing that's surprising, among others, is how many members are voicing their displeasure at the tabloid-ization of TPM and feel that the publication of the mug shots are the latest and worst example. There are also ample examples of people pointing out the increasing Orwellian doublethink coming lately from "Anonymous."
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 4:48pm