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Ron Paul Campaign Site Hacked

Submitted by TraditionalGOPer on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 22:32
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September 29, 2007
Ron Paul Campaign Site Hacked
Posted by Lew Rockwell at September 29, 2007 09:58 PM

For more than two weeks, RonPaul2008.com has been under increasing and increasingly powerful attack from very sophisticated enemies. It is no coincidence that the site went down temporarily just before the total reached a million tonight. This is only the beginning, of course. Thank goodness there is more money now to hire the best security.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/015734.html

WOW! I was wondering... seems like ronpaulforums is down too... wondering if there is a connection or what?

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Meh, it was probably just

Submitted by jaysonks on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 01:13.

Meh, it was probably just the number of people visiting the site. Who cares.

not hacked...

Submitted by jebba on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 22:39.

Judging from the above, he probably means a DoS (Denial of Service) or a DDoS (distributed denial of service). If the site was broken into this would be a "crack" (not a "hack" as used above), but that doesn't appear to be what happened.

I wonder if they were really subjected to a large attack at the time or if there were just tons of people all watching the counter as it got near one million.

Non-techs often ascribe tech problems to "hackers" with little solid info, it seems.

-Jeff

Lew Rockwell replies to me:

Submitted by jebba on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 00:49.

I wrote Lew Rockwell and got a response (one sentence each in two messages):

"Jeff, the info came from the highest possible source.
But perhaps "attacked" is a better word, though that is not the word that was used to me."

Hmm. Who in the campaign would have access to this type of info but not know the correct technical words??? Hmm.... ;)

So likely they really are being hit, and us tech geeks guess it is a DDoS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distri...

Thanks sr. rockwell,

-Jeff

DOS

Submitted by emundasozo on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 01:05.

Likely a DOS. But no doubt much of that traffic was us watching the donations come in.

For all of you who embedded the Flash to your desktop, you should remember to remove that soon to free up their bandwidth.