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The Federal Communications Commission has told members of Congress that it won't reveal exactly how it plans to prevent future attacks on the public comment system.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Democratic lawmakers have been exchanging letters about a May 8 incident in which the public comments website was disrupted while many people were trying to file comments on Pai's plan to dismantle net neutrality rules. The FCC says it was hit by DDoS attacks. The commission hasn't revealed much about what it's doing to prevent future attacks, but it said in a letter last month that it was researching "additional solutions" to protect the comment system.
[...] "Given the ongoing nature of the threats to disrupt the Commission's electronic comment filing system, it would undermine our system's security to provide a specific roadmap of the additional solutions to which we have referred," the FCC chief information officer wrote. "However, we can state that the FCC's IT staff has worked with commercial cloud providers to implement Internet‐based solutions to limit the amount of disruptive bot-related activity if another bot-driven event occurs."
[...] When responding to another question about what hardware resources are being committed to improve the comment system's uptime, the CIO again said that revealing specific details would undermine the FCC's security.
[...] There are apparently no law enforcement agencies involved in the FCC's ongoing investigation because the attacks weren't significant enough. "The FCC consulted with the FBI following this incident, and it was agreed this was not a 'significant cyber incident' consistent with the definition contained in Presidential Policy Directive-41 (PPD-41)," the FCC said in its letter to House Democrats.
[...] Pai told House Democrats to trust him that the situation is under control.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:13PM (7 children)
1) There never was a DDOS attack, they made it up.
2) There was one, they know how to fight it off, but the have bobble heads of the heads of the NSA in their offices and want to emulate them.
Me? I'm going for #1. If there is anything we've learned in the last 6 months it's the Trump administration are all lying sacks of shit.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 01 2017, @11:49PM
Don't forget that the Trump administration was preceded by the "It was the Russian hackers, trust us!" administration.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:35AM (1 child)
I'm with AC. Can you help us to figure out the last administration that was NOT all lying sacks of shit? FFS, man, we can start with George Washington, and his whole treasonous administration which rebelled from it's rightful king's authority. What, you thought there was no propaganda involved in that little fiasco? That whole "I cannot tell a lie!" thing was just propaganda!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 02 2017, @02:25PM
America: lying backstabbers since April 19, 1775!
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:49AM (1 child)
It took you six months to figure out that politicians are lying sacks of shit? Do you have amnesia, or did you forget the last 8 years of Obama? And the 8 years of Bush before that? And the 8 years of Clinton before that? It's amazing that we're sticking to electing shitty presidents for 8 years instead of voting them out after 4...
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 02 2017, @07:11PM
It's amazing you can't see the massive quantitative difference between those administrations and the current one.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday August 02 2017, @12:54AM
#3 There wasn't a DDos attack, simply a lot of people interested in being heard.
That they were woefully unprepared for the traffic they received suggests they totally misjudged the situation and should go back to paper input.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who thinks we should all go to on-line voting.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Wednesday August 02 2017, @04:47PM
The best minds in security have been saying for decades the only solution to a DDoS is lots of bandwidth there is no firewall product or magic bullshit to fix DDoS.