7.15.2009

Bandwagon hits wall

It seems like only yesterday Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Moron) was all quivery with outrage and demanding a "show of force or strength" by, well, somebody in retaliation against North Korea, which evilly aligned country was being blamed for the most recent episode of Internet hijinks, one that apparently knocked a few web sites offline for a little while but was otherwise not much of a big deal ("one of the least sophisticated kinds of attack a hacker can conduct," notes this July 10 piece by Wired) or, in other words, the kind of thing only a Republican could get frightened by, even though, even then, most of the machines involved in carrying out the attack, it was known, resided in China, Japan, and South Korea, not North at all.

Now it turns out, says CNET news:

The denial-of-service attacks launched on Web sites in South Korea and the United States earlier this month appear to have come from a master server in the United Kingdom...

Oh no! Maybe it's not a good idea to pay much attention to this Hoekstra guy.


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