FCC blames DDoS for weekend web lockout
Problems faced by consumers hoping to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission over the weekend were caused by a denial of service attack, the US government agency admits. In a statement, FCC chief information officer Dr David Bray blamed issues with the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) on …
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Tuesday 9th May 2017 12:28 GMT handleoclast
Obvious ploy
If we enforced net neutrality then ISPs would commit an offence if they blocked DDoS attacks (since net neutrality would require that all packets must be treated equally). Therefore net neutrality is a silly idea, as that DDoS attack on our very own site just happened, fortuitously, to demonstrate. QED.
BTW, Ivan, the money has been paid into your Swiss bank account. Thanks for the DDoS attack.
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Tuesday 9th May 2017 14:24 GMT big_D
Re: Obvious ploy
There is nothing wrong with treating different types of traffic differently.
Voice and video calls need higher priority than most other traffic, streaming audio and video probably next up, web traffic doesn't need that much priority, email even lower...
What net neutrality is really about is not prioritising one type of voice traffic over another or, often, not counting anISP's own and "partner" services against data caps, whereas others, who can't / don't partner with them are disadvantaged.
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Tuesday 9th May 2017 19:47 GMT Kevin McMurtrie
Re: Obvious loophole
...will be the invention of the DTP/IP protocol - a special high priority network layer that can carry DIRECTV over heavily throttled AT&T wires. No neutrality conflict here. Anyone can create high priority DTP/IP streams if they're willing to pay the protocol licensing and trademark fees.
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Tuesday 9th May 2017 13:18 GMT Palpy
Tee hee -- DDoS is similar in some ways --
-- to what could happen to content providers who get on the bad side of a large ISP, right? Consumers see the content from those sites slow to a crawl. Then stop. Until the content provider pays baksheesh to the ISP.
The corporate propagandists will probably call these payments a "purely voluntary alternative revenue stream", and funnel some of the money into Ajit Pai's campaign war chest as he maneuvers for elective office.
Thanks, Ajit! <3
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Tuesday 9th May 2017 13:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
We wouldn't accept an election, if most polling places had been closed down and no votes been cast, so if the FCC is DDOS'd they can't proceed with their proceedings, as the public hasn't had a chance to comment. Thus if the DDOS continues until Trumps term is up, net neutrality is saved.
Right?