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Last year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to overturn net neutrality rules, a move that millions of people protested in comments sent to the FCC. But many more were unable to leave comments, as the FCC's public commenting system went down following a late-night John Oliver segment, in which he exhorted viewers to leave their comments with the FCC.
The public excuse for that technical failure was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a common and crude hacking tool that generally uses hundreds of thousands of devices (many of them hacked) to overwhelm a service with traffic. But the FCC has never provided any evidence that it was the target of a DDOS attack, and new emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show how some within the FCC pushed a narrative that its own security staff new to be false.
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It sure looks like the FCC lied about a cyberattack to avoid net neutrality comments originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 21:01:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Last year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to overturn net neutrality rules, a move that millions of people protested in comments sent to the FCC. But many more were unable to leave comments, as the FCC's public commenting system went down following a late-night John Oliver segment, in which he exhorted viewers to leave their comments with the FCC.
The public excuse for that technical failure was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a common and crude hacking tool that generally uses hundreds of thousands of devices (many of them hacked) to overwhelm a service with traffic. But the FCC has never provided any evidence that it was the target of a DDOS attack, and new emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show how some within the FCC pushed a narrative that its own security staff new to be false.
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It sure looks like the FCC lied about a cyberattack to avoid net neutrality comments originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 21:01:12 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report