The Atheist Foundation of Australia website and forum went down yesterday, in a flood of denial-of-service. That in itself is fairly evident: speculation about the culprit can be better left to those who know about botnets and that kind of stuff. The target was definitely the AFA. (For that reason, this post, in its initial form, contains no links. AFA is currently not hosted.)
It’s just as likely to have been Pjotr Madeupnameovich demonstrating what his toy can do, as it is to have been Jerkwads For Jesus. No matter who claims or denies the responsibility, the believers can’t be proud.
If it was some badhat showing off or testing a concept, then bragging about the AFA’s misfortune would be the equivalent of yippeeing because one believed the Sky Fairy had levelled an orphanage in a bomb blast… but the falling bricks killed a couple of atheists! That server, taken out by up to 1GB/sec of bleeping zombie PCs, was also the home of a number of other Australian businesses, who suffered with the AFA.
If it was a believer who arranged the DDOS attack, they have a whole bunch of Jesus’s words in their bible to explain away… not that it’s going to stop them, as this delightful video shows:
And what has the whole exercise achieved? AFA members I’ve spoken to are even more determined, and at least three new enterprises-in-unbelief have sprung up from the crash.
I’ll be around here, or critiquing that funny site that is so not about Jesus, they even took the name out of the URL, over at JAALies.
This site isn’t single-focus, either. All kinds of things may appear.
Anyway, that’s probably enough for a first-off. Time to go and read my hate-mail.