<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>15 sep 2009 kl. 19.47 skrev coretx:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Many Pirate Party Websites are receiving DDOS attacks.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Swedish Pirate Party is not currently under attack, and has not been under attack in any perceptible way for the last month. (I just checked the traffic graphs for a month going back, we've rarely got more than a few 100 kbit/s of inbound traffic.)</div><div><br></div><div>However, we've had some downtime today because of technical issues - not because of a DOS attack. It's possible somebody saw that our site was down while their site was being DoSed and jumped to conclusions.</div><div><br></div><div>To me it sounds strange if a coordinated attack on international Pirate Party systems would happen and omit the Swedish Pirate Party - we are after all a very high profile target in terms of Pirate Parties, since we have had electoral successes and have a member of the European Parliament.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please send you system logs. Possible sources of the attack etc. towards <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 10px; line-height: 14px; "><a href="mailto:laurent.lebesnerais@pp-international.net">laurent.lebesnerais@pp-international.net</a></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry, the Swedish Pirate Party can not send system logs to third parties because of privacy concerns.</div></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Per von Zweigbergk</div><div><div>Swedish Pirate Party Technical Operations Group</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>