{"id":589,"date":"2007-02-08T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2007-02-08T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:05:01","slug":"hackers-are-attacking-the-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Hackers are attacking the tubes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the 13 Intertube root nameservers (the things that turn ip addresses into urls and vice-versa) were <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/I\/INTERNET_ATTACKS?SITE=WIRE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">attacked by a few South Korean hackers<\/a>, in an attempt to clog up the Tubes so badly we wouldn&#8217;t be able to use them. 3 of the servers were overwhelmed over a period of around 12 hours, but the other 10 were just fine, so nobody really saw any of the effects of this attack. Still, it&#8217;s apparently the worst attack against the Tubes since 2002. Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the 13 Intertube root nameservers (the things that turn ip addresses into urls and vice-versa) were attacked by a few South Korean hackers, in an attempt to clog up the Tubes so badly we wouldn&#8217;t be able to use them. 3 of the servers were overwhelmed over a period of around 12 hours, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,7,48],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-internet","tag-life-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}