Voat bugginess of late due to malicious attacks on the site (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Vindicator

Our usual sticky can be found here: Executive Summary of Pizzagate Evidence

Please keep an eye on this post from @PuttItOut regarding the special measures (like "checking your bits", etc.) that have been put in place due to ongoing, dynamic and very costly (i.e. funded by deep pockets) cyberattacks against the site. Someone is trying very, very hard to silence us all. He just updated this post today:

Voat is being maliciously attacked (CHECK FOR UPDATES)

Edit 4:

As many of you know already Voat is still being attacked, but in many different ways. We now believe this is related to Voat not taking down material without a court order.

Edit 3:

We are still being sent high amounts of traffic. For the time being let's just be happy we have remained online throughout this assault. Sorry about the thumbnails (text only Voat is so 1990s).

Top Traffic Last 24 Hours

DDOS Inflow

Edit 2:

This attack is relentless and dynamic. They have found holes in our system and hit us where we never expected. This has forced us to reconfigure our network and site behavior to prevent repeat attacks.

Voat has been put into "lockdown" mode so things like thumbnail generation are disabled.

Edit:

These guys are actually fairly creative. We might have a worthy opponent here. Buckle up Voat.

One of the reasons yesterday's attempt at rolling forward the port code failed was that Voat was being sent DDOS style requests in very large numbers. See yesterdays announcement about this topic.

Voat is at a stage now that the code can somewhat deal with this without capitulating. Usually these attacks only last 10-12 hours, but this current run has been longer in duration than normal so we are now informing the community that we are actually being maliciously targeted.

Below are some interesting graphs showing some stat data:

Top traffic sources in Last 24 hours

Requests over last 30 days

CPU drop when CF DDOS Protection turned on

I'll provide more info when we have it, but PG.

Until then, enjoy having your bits closely inspected. Please don't be shy about it either, just go with it. This includes the ladies as well... ;)

https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806

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QuestionEverything ago

I assume they are using bot armies. Honestly, theres' only about a dozen players that can do this. Most of em are 3 letter agencies.

Attack against free speech in America? Yeah, thats a treason cookie. And while they might not get caught in this lifetime, Justice is a constant in this universe. Karma will condemn these people to their own hell.

WD_Pelley ago

Karma will condemn these people to their own hell.

I wonder what hell would await these people?

Vindicator ago

Honestly, theres' only about a dozen players that can do this. Most of em are 3 letter agencies.

Is it weird that this makes me happy?

I know, let's all do FOIA requests to find out who is spending money attacking a tiny Swiss bulletin board site!

QuestionEverything ago

FOIA is lol. Fake accountability where there is absolutely none.

carmencita ago

Yes. I agree, but in the meantime they are creating a Hell for us. What about calling this idiots out on blogs, twitter, you name it. Spread the word that we are being attacked and that even if people don't get our cause, it is still an attack on our free speech.