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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. The inspector general has investigated the issue and is set to release a report, which has been seen by the FCC but not yet made public. Thanks to some statements from the FCC, however, we can guess that the report confirms what pro-net neutrality groups have been saying all along: The "attack" was totally bogus.
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The FCC just admitted it lied about a cyberattack to avoid net neutrality comments originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 18:44:18 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. The inspector general has investigated the issue and is set to release a report, which has been seen by the FCC but not yet made public. Thanks to some statements from the FCC, however, we can guess that the report confirms what pro-net neutrality groups have been saying all along: The "attack" was totally bogus.
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The FCC just admitted it lied about a cyberattack to avoid net neutrality comments originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 18:44:18 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report