The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods during the past two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks, according to its founder, Matt Drudge.
And it’s a mystery who’s behind it…
But, according to cybersecurity experts who spoke with Business Insider, using such a method to take down the Drudge Report would not be easy.
The site is already equipped to handle a high volume of visitors and scale out to accommodate spikes in traffic. Moreover, a website that generates so many page views would most likely employ strong defense measures, the cybersecurity experts said…
Drudge has pointed the finger at the US government, tweeting that the traffic that downed his website had “VERY suspicious routing [and timing].”
“Attacking coming from ‘thousands’ of sources,” he wrote on Twitter. “Of course none of them traceable to Fort Meade…
“Maybe they think this is a proportional counterattack to Russia,” tweeted Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS News investigative journalist. “After all they have decided @Drudge is Russian fake news, right?”
Neither the White House nor the Office of the Director of National Intelligence responded to requests for comment. “If Obama wanted to do something like that, he’d have to go to different people. It would be a hard conversation to have.”
“Maybe if there was a military reason to have it,” DeMott added. “But domestically, there is no way.”
“But domestically, there is no way.”
Imagine if Demott was full of shit, and not only was there a way domestically, but Obama had been doing it all the time to enemies and political opposition. Notice Sharyll Atkisson had her computers hacked, and classified documents planted on them, so she could be summarily imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit. An innocent woman, who had actually stood up to the Obama administration for murdered federal agent Bryan Terry, targeted by the machine. Now, after her experiences, she sees no reason it couldn’t be the US government, which, by the way, will not deny they were involved.
A lot goes on in government that would be unbelievable these days. Clearly Obama is not pulling people aside and asking them to crash Drudge’s servers. But I will bet most of the top domestic intel positions are now manned by Obama’s people – who do not need to talk to Obama to get word of what the party wants them to do.
Additionally, there might be another reason Drudge suspects government involvement. Drudge is probably bumping up against the surveillance state, and he may be bucking against their pressures periodically in ways they don’t like. It wouldn’t surprise me if he saw correlations with things he is doing to piss off his own watchers, and the onset of his DDOS attacks. These attacks could be ways to bring him to heel, by costing him advertising revenue when he pisses them off.
Bring on the Trumpening already.
Help spread r/K Theory now, because we don’t know when the machine will come for us
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I hope that Matt Drudge does not commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head from twenty feet away.
Ditto. I’ll bet few will ever know the sigh of relief he had when Trump won.