【Passion Times: AN ATTEMPTED MURDER OF THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH BY BRUTE FORCE: THE CASE OF PASSION TIMES, A GLOBAL TARGET】 Any regular viewer of passiontimes.hk would surely have had the experience that the webpage fails to load. In the past, this was an occasional annoyance; during this past week, this has been the case so regular that some get the impression passiontimes.hk is permanently down. The kind of DDoS attacks we suffer from should rank among those in the top end of the “Table of Victims”: at its peak, the volume of requests reaches 200Gbps, those requests coming from more than 40 countries. Since every request has the size of about 1kb, a 200 Gbps volume of requests means that we are handling 200 million service requests in one second. The huge number of zombie machines mobilised to launch this massive attack in order to take down our servers is without a doubt politically motivated. As a matter of fact, a group that names itself MESSENGERS.we has declared that they are responsible for the DDoS attacks, saying the reason why they attack us is because “[passiontimes.hk] violates ethics requirement of journalism occupation. Its only aim is to publicize the Occupy Central extremely, deteriorate the social order and further antagonize the HK government (sic).” This is the equivalent of serial mass murders by bandits for a webpage, especially one with a budget typical among small outfits like us. Not only is it the killing of lifeless machines that deliver computer bits or bytes to various computers, tablets, and phones all over the world; it is also an attempted murder of the freedom of speech. Passion Times is the media arm of Civic Passion, one of the prime movers of new waves of social movement in Hong Kong. We are firmly and indisputably part of the “New Media” in Hong Kong, and we provide not only articles by a large number of popular writers, but also invaluable first-hand reports that would have been unavailable elsewhere. These DDoS attacks reflect the brutal ways in which the authority attempts to stifle and kill freedom of speech, of expression, and of information. The webpage also hosts archives of many excellent video shows on probably the greatest variety of topics among internet TV stations in Hong Kong. 全文︰passiontimes.hk/article/10-09-2014/19156 請支持熱血文青課金計劃： passiontimes.hk/?view=raise2 請支持熱血主持育成計劃： passiontimes.hk/?view=raise 《熱血時報》 iOS，Android 同步抗共，歡迎下載： iPhone passiontimes.hk/iphoneapp/ Android https://play.google/store/apps/details?id=hk.passiontimes -------------------- 全民制憲系統： passiontimes.hk/?view=cwiki 打倒共產黨！
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 06:37:07 +0000
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