Smarter Than I Thought I Am?

Remember my Twitter DDOS conspiracy theory? Turns out that I am closer to the truth than I ever guessed. From The NY Times:

"But Bill Woodcock, research director of the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit technical organization that tracks Internet traffic, said the attack was an extension of the conflict between Russia and Georgia.

It was not clear who initiated the attack, Mr. Woodcock said, but it was likely that “one side put up propaganda, the other side figured this out and is attacking them.” He said he found evidence that the attacks had originated from the Abkhazia region, a territory on the Black Sea disputed between Russia and Georgia."

Weird.

DOS Update

So apparently, the hack attacks on LJ, Twitter, etc., were all to silence ONE blogger in (formerly Soviet) Georgia. The blogosphere has been thrown into chaos because the Putin regime is that scared of one person who says nasty things about them and who was marking the one year anniversary of last year's bizarre little war between Russia and Georgia.

I think that if you have a Twitter account, your next post should be "Lousy stinking Russian government" or words to that effect.