Developing: Amazon & DynDNS investigating internet outage reports on east coast of U.S. amid reports of major websites not working properly.
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Update: DynDNS says DDoS attack mainly impacting east coast & it continues to mitigate issue; Amazon says AWS issue ID'd, working to resolve
.@CNBCnow Call me paranoid, but I worry this is Russians doing a test run to disrupt our election day. Chaos works in their favor.
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Call me paranoid also. I had the same thought: dry run for Election Day? (Or attempt to keep Donald off Twitter maybe)
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Polling place voting machines would not be impacted by an attack like this. But it is still concerning. And yes, Russia.
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but many servers and reporting systems would be impacted
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Yes, yes of course. And it would be an element of chaos we don't need on 11/8.
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voter registration system would be impossible nightmare
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this recent post from
@schneierblog on nation-state DDoS attacks seems relevant: http://bit.ly/2dv9VbCThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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before you posted this.
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coincidence---I tried to sign on to Amazon to download Foley book based on your blog---couldn't get in.
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