{"id":1344,"date":"2009-11-29T00:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T05:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2018-08-07T22:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T02:18:35","slug":"sunday-november-29-2009-attacks-on-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, November 29, 2009 \u2014 Attacks on this&nbsp;Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you\u2019ve been try\u00ading to get to this site in the last week, you may have found it down.&nbsp;This is because I\u2019ve been sub\u00adject\u00aded to a direct attack on the site, some\u00adbody infil\u00adtrat\u00ading it with com\u00adput\u00ader gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded rub\u00adbish to send up the band\u00adwidth usage until it shuts down. The mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal is insert\u00aded every minute or so, at all times.&nbsp;The attack, I\u2019ve been able to deter\u00admine, orig\u00adi\u00adnates in Chi\u00adna.&nbsp;This is cer\u00adtain \u2014 I\u2019ve been work\u00ading with sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple to deter\u00admine its origin.&nbsp;<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This does not sur\u00adprise me.&nbsp;At one time, I had a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant num\u00adber of read\u00aders in Chi\u00adna. I often review Chi\u00adnese music and books. I have warm feel\u00adings for the peo\u00adple of Chi\u00adna, and a great inter\u00adest in their cul\u00adture and his\u00adto\u00adry.&nbsp;But I have quite the oppo\u00adsite feel\u00adings about the par\u00ada\u00adsitic Com\u00admu\u00adnist aris\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy that rules over and exploits them.&nbsp;That aris\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly cen\u00adsors the Inter\u00adnet, cut\u00adting off the Chi\u00adnese peo\u00adple from crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly impor\u00adtant knowl\u00adedge of the out\u00adside world.&nbsp;It also main\u00adtains a vast infra\u00adstruc\u00adture of mon\u00adi\u00adtors, key-word trac\u00aders, and com\u00adput\u00ader hack\u00aders to fol\u00adlow glob\u00adal web activ\u00adi\u00adty. The day after I post\u00aded an image of the Tibetan flag, almost all traf\u00adfic from Chi\u00adna ceased.&nbsp;The day after I post\u00aded \u201cA Gift of Earth and Water\u201d, there was a flur\u00adry of hits from the <span class=\"caps\">PRC<\/span>, then the attack dis\u00adabling my&nbsp;site.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been try\u00ading to get to this site in the last week, you may have found it down.&nbsp;This is because I\u2019ve been sub\u00adject\u00aded to a direct attack on the site, some\u00adbody infil\u00adtrat\u00ading it with com\u00adput\u00ader gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded rub\u00adbish to&nbsp;send&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1344\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ar-blog-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}