<story><title>FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/the-fccs-comment-system-targeted-by-ddos-attacks-during-filing-period-for-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcarron</author><text>Real confirmation of an attack would be a nice-to-have in this situation. I can see 3 probable realities:&lt;p&gt;1. The sheer volume of commenters and responses took down the system. They cover it by saying a DDoS attack was the cause.
2. They are intent on crippling Net Neutrality anyway, and either designed the system to insufficiently handle traffic and call it a DDos or even DDos themselves.
3. Since there are groups with vested interest in removing net neutrality, and they have deep pockets, I can easily see a few groups moving to protect their interests. In other words, a legitimate DDoS attack.&lt;p&gt;All 3 seem equally likely to me, especially considering Ajit Pai&amp;#x27;s stance on NN. This is not encouraging as a citizen of the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben174</author><text>John Oliver&amp;#x27;s video is #3 trending on YouTube right now. It specifically calls for people to write comments on that page. He even bought up a domain that points directly to the page.  &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gofccyourself.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gofccyourself.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC’s comment system targeted by DDoS during filing period for net neutrality</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/the-fccs-comment-system-targeted-by-ddos-attacks-during-filing-period-for-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wcarron</author><text>Real confirmation of an attack would be a nice-to-have in this situation. I can see 3 probable realities:&lt;p&gt;1. The sheer volume of commenters and responses took down the system. They cover it by saying a DDoS attack was the cause.
2. They are intent on crippling Net Neutrality anyway, and either designed the system to insufficiently handle traffic and call it a DDos or even DDos themselves.
3. Since there are groups with vested interest in removing net neutrality, and they have deep pockets, I can easily see a few groups moving to protect their interests. In other words, a legitimate DDoS attack.&lt;p&gt;All 3 seem equally likely to me, especially considering Ajit Pai&amp;#x27;s stance on NN. This is not encouraging as a citizen of the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clusmore</author><text>In 2016, Australia held its first online-first national census. Unsurprisingly it was a complete disaster, and the government told us the system was the victim of a DDoS attack right around dinner time for the east coast. They also told us they expected around 10 million participants and that during capacity planning they took the expected 1 million submissions per hour and doubled it to be safe, i.e. that a bunch of statisticians thought that 10 million people would form a uniform distribution over a day rather than spiking when they get home from work.</text></comment>