This Friday,
[t]he online encyclopedia [Wikipedia] was forced offline for several hours across Europe and the Middle East, and the site battled the attack to restore service. The Wikimedia Foundation -- the organization behind the site -- condemned the attack saying it wanted to protect the "fundamental right" for people to be able to "freely access and share information".
The actors behind the attack are not known (or not yet disclosed), however it was noted that there are several countries in the region which are "eager to censor the site."
The full text of the Wikimedia Foundation's statement about the attacks can be found here
Maps of the areas affected by the outage are available here and here
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @08:52PM (2 children)
Wouldn't it be great if Wikipedia were Open Source. Then anyone could copy it. Then anyone could edit it. Then the Great and Wonderful Open Internet could route around DDOS Censorship. Like Whoa, Dude Bro.
Oh wait. https://wiki2.org [wiki2.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @01:29AM (1 child)
What makes you think that Open Source has anything to do with routing around DDoS attacks?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @02:44AM
Can't stop the signal, dude bro.