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发帖数: 23432 | 1 change.org 申明：网站被 DDOS ｚｚ
http://blog.change.org/2011/04/chinese-hackers-attack-change-or
Attackers use distributed denial of service attack to bring down the world’
s fastest growing social action platform after more than 90,000 people in
175 countries call for release of Chinese dissident artist.
Chinese hackers temporarily brought down the world’s fastest-growing social
action platform after more than 90,000 people in 175 countries endorsed an
online call for the release of internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai
Weiwei.
Weiwei, best known for his role in the construction of the Beijing Olympic
stadium and his recent Sunflower Seeds exhibition at the Tate Modern, has
become an increasingly outspoken critic of the Chinese government in recent
years, in particular over the handling of the 2008 earthquake in the country
’s Sichuan province.
The cyber attack on Change.org follows the viral success of a petition
calling for Ai Weiwei’s release by leading global art museums, including
the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the
Tate Modern, London, as well as the Association of Art Museum Directors.
The campaign is attracting more than 10,000 new supporters a day and is now
the most popular international campaign on Change.org, the world’s fastest
growing activism platform with some 3.5 million monthly visitors.
The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack began early Monday and made
the site completely inaccessible for a few hours. Change.org issued a formal
request for urgent assistance to both the FBI and U.S. State Department’s
Bureau of East Asian Pacific Affairs within hours of the attack.
“We do not know the reason or exact source of these attacks,” said Ben
Rattray, the founder of Change.org. “All we know is that after the
unprecedented success of a campaign by leading global art museums using our
platform to call on the Chinese government to release Ai Weiwei, we became
the victims of highly sophisticated denial of service attacks from locations
in China.”
“We’ve notified the U.S. State Department of the situation and asked for
their immediate assistance,” Rattray added. “Our engineers have been able
to keep up the site during parts of the attack, but we’ve had some down
time and without government assistance there are limits to what we can do.”
Change.org, a platform which allows anyone, anywhere to launch online social
action campaigns, has been blocked in China at various points over the last
few years. |
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