The web + politics
Joe Lieberman's site has been down most of the day. According to a NYT article (registration required), Lieberman's campaign communications have been severely crippled:
The Web site’s malfunction disabled campaign e-mail accounts and hampered communications among field offices and with tens of thousands of supporters, Mr. Lieberman’s advisers said. They said high traffic and connections to the campaign Web server overwhelmed its allocated bandwidth, the advisers said. They could not say how great the bandwidth was.I wonder how long it will be before such DOS attacks are deemed "terrorism" by GWB and company, thus allowing the Feds to send the perpetrators to one the government's secret prisons?Dan Geary, the Internet consultant to the Lieberman campaign, said that the site, Joe2006.com, began coming under attack on Monday morning.
“Midmorning yesterday, a very rapid, instant number of server queries to the site — not just traffic to the site — completely disabled our network,” he said. “It’s like trying to drink from a fire hose.”
The Lamont campaign denied having anything to do with the Web site difficulties and replied to the accusations of blame by offering to send a technician to Lieberman headquarters to help fix the problem.
Comments
I find it very V for Vendetta-esque. Have a problem effect your campaign is such a way that you are a victim and get coverage as such...of course, Joe L's support base is heavily NON-internet savvy, so one wonder's how much harm it really caused.
I hope Lamont boots Joe L's ass out of there.
Posted by: Jake Manalan | August 10, 2006 5:51 PM