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The NYT reports that New York Magazine website went off-line hours after posting a story featuring 35 women who have accused the comedian Bill Cosby of sexual abuse and the article was inaccessible on Monday morning. "Our site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the issue, and working on a fix," the magazine posted to its main Twitter account early Monday morning.
A user called Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for a DOS attack on the site and said the attack was based on a hatred for New York, and was not related to the cover that features Mr. Cosby's accusers. As the website remained off-line, editors were working to find other ways to publish the piece, which the magazine said took six months of work.
On Monday morning, the magazine began posting audio related to the cover article on Instagram. The story is available at Web.Archive.Org's Wayback Machine.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 29 2015, @02:46AM
> People can have secrets. People can lead dual lives.
Not just can, but must, it is part of what it means to be human. The magnitude of the dichotomy varies by the individual, but as your example shows we are one person to our children, another person to each of our lovers, and yet another to our parents -- more generally we create a variation on our personality for practically every social context like work, school, church, etc. Some aspects are common across one or more of those variations, but some aspects are highly compartmentalized.
That's one of the biggest reasons ubiquitous surveillance is dangerous to our humanity. It tries to stuff all of our variations into one bucket and then takes away our agency to control which aspects of our personality are disclosed to which people. In Facebook's ideal world you have one facebook account which is a proxy for your interactions with everyone else and is filled with the data they've accumulated on you, willingly or otherwise. Facebook decides who that data is shared with, not you.