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[rone]

venividi pointed me towards this bit of information regarding yesterday's DDoS against LJ.  Needless to say, my contempt for Blue Security has reached a level reserved for people like Colin Powell and John McCain.

I interviewed at Six Apart today, but i signed an NDA, so anything i overheard or discussed today regarding the outage is not something i can repeat here.  The interview, however, went well, despite the lack of sleep of my interviewers (one of whom was lisa, if i may namedrop).  Sleep well tonight, guys!

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Can't say I even noticed an outage, when was it? I think I heard about Blue Security, or someone with similar ideas, a while back, and suspected then that there'd be some high-profile collateral damage, though not by the mechanism described in the link.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

In some ways, I hope you don't get the job. My dislike for LJ's post-move shenanigans has been stated before.

However, if you do land the job there, you can help them get their heads back in order.

And yeah I'd be subscribing again if you did in support. Tho I'd prolly only sign up for 3 months just in case your ex-boss moves there too (:

Gooder And Badder News

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info on Blue Security - clearly under the Patriot Act launching Nuclear Weapons on them because they MAY be Iranian Flying Saucers seems like a viable solution.

It is tragic to hear that your job interview is going gooder, as that would suggest that you will get employed, and from there there inevitable down hill slide into the bourgiese sentimentalities of the era....

[waider.livejournal.com]

That bluesecurity thread is scary for the amount of idiocy it contains on the part of defenders of bluesecurity. Holy crap.

[omarius.livejournal.com]

That's PFC, man. Rone the man, from Blogistan! May they throw buckets of money at you and the road rise up to meet you &c. &c.

[dwell.livejournal.com]

well! i hope you get the offer and i'm sure you'll make a great decision.

a little more info about the attack is here (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/04/78074_HNbluesecurityddos_1.html).

bt

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yay interview! Good luck with job.