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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: 1, Troll) by qzm on Sunday August 27 2017, @02:49AM (2 children)
Almost exactly the opposite of this.
The RAF generally used low altitude 'surgical' strikes.
The USAF (which later organised most of the raids) were in favour of high altitude 'area saturation' raids.
Compare for example the Dam Busters raise versus the Dresden firebombing..
So no, the RAF could hit what they aimed at, the USAF was in favour of maximising collateral damage.
This generally continued until the emergence of guided/smart weapons.
Even in Iraq it was the RAF called in for low level accurate bombing purposes where smart/guided weapons would not work.
And, WTF is it with this BS summary anyway? Since when was WW2 comparible with these idiotic arseholes playing dick-size competitions in the streets and getting out of their depth?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @03:22AM
Are you deliberately trying to re-write history, or incredibly misinformed?
The Dam Buster raid was a one-off. Arthur Harris's 1000-bomber fire raids were the SOP.
The fire-bombings of Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden were RAF night operations, with USAAF cooperation.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday August 28 2017, @05:28AM
Alternatively: the RAF found their daytime losses were too great to sustain, and concentrated on night time raids. When the USA joined in, the USAF were more than wrlcome to run their raids during the daytime, with the RAF continuing to operate at night. In order to stem losses, the (visible during the day) USAF went as high as they could to avoid AA fire. I doubt dropping bombs from altitude was much more inaccurate than dropping in the dark.