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Knowledge Troll [soylentnews.org] writes:

Akamai kicked journalist Brian Krebs' site off its servers after he was hit by a 'record' cyberattack [businessinsider.com] is how Business Insider describes the ongoing DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) against Brian Krebs [krebsonsecurity.com] (currently offline; google cache [googleusercontent.com]). This is notable as Akamai was able to mitigate the effect of the record scale attack [bbc.com] but has decided to end their service relationship with Krebs. Victory has currently been handed to the attackers: if the goal is to get Krebs' website off the Internet it has succeeded regardless of the mechanism. Despite being deleted off the Internet Krebs does not fault Akamai [twitter.com].

The really Interesting question is how long will it take for Krebs to return to operational status? Is there anyone else that will be willing to donate their mitigation services so Krebs can go back online? Is there any possible way he could afford to pay normal prices for mitigation services that could handle 600 gigabits per second of flooding? Exactly who do you have to piss off, how sophisticated do they need to be, and how long can they afford the risk involved with carrying out the attack? Free Speech for the Internet is going to be defined by how this plays out.

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