FCC Sued For Hiding Details On its Phantom DDOS Attack In addition to recently being sued for its failure to transparently disclose its conversations with incumbent ISPs, Ajit Pai's FCC is also now facing a second lawsuit over the agency's alleged DDOS attack, which the FCC claimed crippled the agency's website on the same evening that comedian John Oliver lambasted the agency's assault on net neutrality, urging viewers to speak their mind via the agency's comment website. Security experts and journalists doubt the FCC's claim, and believe the FCC is engaged in a rather odd and clumsy cover up.

quote: Collier said his records request was prompted by the FCC’s “weird and cagey” inclination to obscure details about the incident. “The fact that they gave Gizmodo such a runaround in its own request for internal ‘analysis’ of the attack just goes to show this,” he said. “I want to know the full story.” The debate over the DDOS attack that wasn't come as the FCC is also under fire for Why would the FCC lie about a DDOS attack? Many analysts and journalists believe Ajit Pai's FCC may have wanted to downplay the massive opposition to its plan to gut net neutrality protections. But when Senators and others worried about the integrity of the FCC website pressed the agency for comment, they were unwilling to support their claims. Now journalist Kevin Collier has sued the agency in the hopes of forcing its hands on its dubious claims:The debate over the DDOS attack that wasn't come as the FCC is also under fire for turning a blind eye to comment fraud at the FCC website, where millions of bogus comments have been filed in artificial support for Ajit Pai's plan to kill net neutrality.







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TIGERON

join:2008-03-11

Boston, MA Motorola MG7550

20 recommendations TIGERON Member As one user pointed If you watch Pai in many interviews, two things anyone can surmise about him : Pai is lying, he knows he is lying, and he is trying to obscure deceiving the public by cherry picking information to support his bold-face bullshit and of his corporate employers. Nuggits

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Allston, MA 16 recommendations Nuggits Member Caught Red Handed



Some worthwhile reading...feel free to share with others: » Seeing as how their 'DDOS' was committed by their own internal API, rather than their public facing interface, it does bring up a very good question: Is the FCC being deliberately malevolent, or are they that incompetent to where their own internal tools are being used against them - which would be a major blunder for a Federal Agency.Some worthwhile reading...feel free to share with others: » np.reddit.com/r/technolo ··· dkgxguo/

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Snohomish, WA 11 recommendations tshirt Premium Member How can he hide what never happened? Is Pai a commie spy? Are the Russians trying to cripple our internet economy?

Certainly it's either that or he's a total git, yet another minister of disinformation, just as incompetent as the rest.