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The Atheist Census under attack.

I don't get it. What's the point of DDoSing this site? What does anyone gain except looking like a moron when they get found?

Also, aren't there ways to prevent those?
 
ehcks said:
I don't get it. What's the point of DDoSing this site? What does anyone gain except looking like a moron when they get found?

Also, aren't there ways to prevent those?
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I'm skeptical that it's even being DDoSed. The couple of times I clicked on it, I got their "We're being DDoSed" page. If they can serve that, they could serve whatever they' claim is being smothered.
 
zeggman said:
I'm skeptical that it's even being DDoSed. The couple of times I clicked on it, I got their "We're being DDoSed" page. If they can serve that, they could serve whatever they' claim is being smothered.
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Not necessarily. It's easy to configure a server to simply drop the actual request on the floor and serve up a static page. If the normal page uses any sort of scripting or database lookup, it would take much more computing resources to serve. So the DDoS could stop the normal, computation intensive, page, but not the simple "Come back later" page.
 
But an attack lasting over 2.5 days? Is that a long time for an attack or is there something else going on?

I am told that a DOS attack also may impact on other websites as the server is busy.
 
Still says "Under attack" for me. Maybe they only want to count "new atheists".
 
jj said:
Typical terrorist tactics, disrupt discourse. A common mechanism to repress minorities, that.
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See also: "We need thousands of atheists to apply for the 30 holiday display slots in San Difrisco so Christians get very few."
 
Hey, it's back up for your guyses information.

38,851 so far...

(Including two from North Korea h.t.h.)
 
Done and done.

I do wonder how representative of atheism as a whole this will be, though. It's a fairly self-selecting sample. I'm reasonably certain that 7.8% is a larger percentage of people who like to be described as "humanist" than in the general atheist population.

Of course, the strangest anomaly has to be 73.5% of people who have taken the survey being male. I'd be very surprised indeed if the true gender balance of atheists wasn't as close to 50% as makes no odds.

And, of course, you can't rule out people extracting the urine.
 
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