The DDOS Cyber attack has ramped up today with a flood of traffic coming in from Hong Kong.
Eric took many measures today that improved things, but it remains difficult to write and publish blog posts.
I have paid for a new level of security and tools today which had some success, but it is an arms race with the vandals who don’t want you to read this site.
Traffic patterns are highly unusual today. We see super high strange bursts from US sources, and then the long grinding burst of thousands of new “fans” in Hong Kong who all decided to read an Australian site this afternoon. Compare the new robot traffic to the normal size of reader traffic in Australia, France and Germany.
So behind the scenes it is hard to write or publish while we add armor to the site to control the trouble, and so please forgive errors, typos or other unusual lack of polish. I can’t predict when a draft will be saved…
Thanks to people who have donated to help shore up the site.
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