The "Daily Stormer", a neo-Nazi website that has been having trouble staying online since Charlottesville, has once again been shutdown.
According to The Verge:
The neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer briefly returned to the web today, using a new URL and a string of new hosts to dodge the bans that took it off the internet last week. The site reappeared this morning at the address Punished-stormer.com, apparently using Dreamhost as both a host and DNS provider.
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Shortly after the new site became public, Anonymous groups began a denial-of-service attack against it, targeting the Dreamhost DNS infrastructure that makes the site accessible to the rest of the web. The result was nearly two hours of intermittent downtime for the countless sites using Dreamhost's DNS infrastructure.
In WWII, things like this were called "collateral damage", where innocent casualties were necessary in order to get at the Nazis themselves. But is this sort of action legitimate on the internet? Especially by non-governmental organizations?
Also reported at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/dreamhost-ddos-attack/
Related story: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/21/16180614/charlottesville-daily-stormer-alt-right-internet-domain
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:24PM (2 children)
It's not just the RAF that were inaccurate. A (moderate) number of bombs were dropped on Anglesey and Snowdonia during the Second World War, by German pilots that got lost on their way to Liverpool and decided they didn't want to take the bombs back home again.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Saturday August 26 2017, @09:14PM
The UK also used high-technology (for the time) radio jamming and distortion to send the German bombers off their designated target route. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:29PM
The difference is that the RAF made inaccuracy intentionally unimportant. They were area-bombing on purpose, because they could do little else.
At least the USAAF paid lip-service to precision strategic bombing until 1945.