It's a shame it's not possible to DDos Attack their voters so that no ballot slips get through at the poles.

who are saying "believe what I believe or I'll DDOS you"? Or is it "we don't trust the British people to not vote for the racist buggers"? How about "Democracy's awesome, so long as we're in charge"?

They're not very good at upholding their own beliefs, are they?

Well, they've come for the BNP and we'll say next to nothing.

Then it'll be the UKIP, SNP and the Monster Raving Loonies. And we'll say nothing.

Then we'll be left with a choice between the conservatives and labour. And that will just suck horrendously.

Nelson Muntz, that is...Hah-Ha!

The DDoS attack is pure fiction - read the comment here

http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2009/05/whodunnit.html

Not surprised because nobody does. Its the one thing this country is united about.

Although I do think you should be free to spout whatever hateful diatribe you wish.

And (although I wouldn't want you at my party) you should be allowed to go to the Queens party but just sit there eat you cake and keep your mouth shut!

...Scumbags? Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice...

Well would you believe it, a good use for DDoS.

ALF

It is piss funny listening to them bitch and moan. Excellent!

on the world's smallest violin...

Jesus! So like the whole Russia/Estonia thing.. yeah? Wow... i mean.... wow... HOW many computers must have been involved? I mean.. this is pretty serious... like did they get like every hax0r in the world to ddos their site?

After all they're proving they're crap with IT. Are you sure their email didn't originate from Nigeria?

I, for one, am gutted...

Paris as she'd never deny service.

If they are having trouble raising £5,000 for additional server capacity, they are obviously not as big and important as they would like everyone to think they are.

"in largest cyber attack in recorded history" - riiight, sure. So it was bigger than the one that took out Ukrain for a week? And 'A conspiracy by "Marxist cyber criminals"' - no, just a couple of script kiddies with a bonet.

They do like to flatter themselves and make out that they are this huge force in politics. If anything, the release of their membership list was quite heartening, it showed just how few members they actually have around the country.

The BNP are a joke.

Although that doesn't mean we should stop watching them.

"The BNP's Darby said it had reported its suspicions about the attack to MI5 and the police, actions only likely to result in a charge of wasting police time, according to Searchlight." .... and a waste of the BNP's time too, many would say, given the nature of the game/attack/ego trip?

Some muppet tripped over the ethernet cable to their server (note: singular), but nothing can ever be attributed to in-house staff, so blame the commies.

I find it interesting that if such an attack had been directed against, say: Oxfam, or maybe the Red Cross, it'd be shocking and contemptible. I would decry it as an example of the reason botnets need to be cleaned up and so forth.

However when it happens to the BNP, I struggle to feel any sympathy, and start to wonder if perhaps the murky side of the internet doesn't have its better points.

Paris - she can identify with suddenly being deprived of technology after all of those phones.

bleeds...

Oh, wait no, blood flows out and in to that organ normaly, so no it doesn't bleed at all.

The old tricks are still used. Lets hope they don't still work though.

any of what they're whining about was true. Okay, so it's not right that they should be silenced, but it also isn't right that they're allowed to spout this torrent of ---- and have their well informed, technoliterate supporters gasp and point at the marxist, east European, botnet WITH THREE PARTY SUPPORT.

The BNP's whole existence is based on portraying themselves as 'victims' (the poor, downtrodden white male) so this plays into their hands, producing the same comedic exaggeration in their response as found in their other literature.

I wonder if it hit their impressivly pointless efforts (supported by US right-wing activists) to ballot-stuff the comments sections of the Daily Mail website (amongst other sites) to make their supporters comments most popular?

The real reason is that the moved ISPs.

Don't be fooled by what they think is an incredible publicity stunt and call-to-arms.

Everything else is BS. I mean, DDoS uses botnets. How they can find the leader of the zombies in such a short space of time mystifies me. Unless of course there wasn't one...

When will they realise that the majority of British people do not like the BNP. Not in the same way that Labour supporters don't like Conservative supporters - the way that reasonable human beings don't like fascist bigots.

Attacking the BNP only serves to get them mentioned in news outlets, like this one...

On the other hand, the BNP managed to get just over 5% of the vote in the london mayoral elections... I doubt that 5% of the people of london actually believe in their policies, most of those votes will be protest votes because all of the major parties have disenfranchised them in one way or another. Take away those, and the BNP will only have a small hard core of followers.

If the major parties would stop being so sleazy and self serving then parties like the BNP wouldn't even register in the grand scheme of things.

Try serving the people who voted for you, not your buddies at the golf club.

So, the BNP is a recognised and legitimate political party right?

Who the fuck are these hippies trying to subvert the course of democracy?

I don't side with people that don't trust democracy. The choice is that of the people, not some hippies with delusions of sticking it to the man under the European superstate flag bullshit.

So Clear Channel carries BNP posters? Time for a stern letter to their UK office boycotting all the other products they advertise ...

They can have freedom of speech. I have the freedom not to buy.

"They're not very good at upholding their own beliefs, are they? Well, they've come for the BNP and we'll say next to nothing."

Congratulations for buying into the propaganda: make up some affront to your cause, then use it as an excuse to attack the people you've just blamed for that affront. And you're lapping it up.

"Then it'll be the UKIP, SNP and the Monster Raving Loonies. And we'll say nothing."

Congratulations for the "they came for... and we said nothing" reference which, given the affected party, manages to hit the heights of irony whether you intended it or not.

> "Their IT professionals tracked the criminal activity back to a notorious "anti-fascist" organisation" -

Tracing the origin / originator of a sophisticated distributed denial of service botnet attack is usually pretty much impossible as the originator / controller will have carefully concealed their tracks.

This episode reeks of cheap publicity stunt - the aggressor paints itself victim; the aggressor paints the victim as aggressor.

Btw - Stop the War collatition experienced a website DDOS / email outage during the Isreali attack on Palestine - someone was clearly uncomfortable with the true horror of war being revealed. The attacker clearly wasn't particularly clever because simple mirroring across freely donated virtual hosting and round robin DNS solved the issue.

...No, I refute that. I think it's much more a question of the quality of your education and the culture you grow up in. Non-white tend to live in less developed countries, if they were born into a well off (yes, money is important here) British family they'd achieve just as much. Skin colour has no more relation to your 'capabilities' then hair colour does to your foot size.