DDoS attacks

I have always considered pitiful all people who spend their energy and time on disturbing others just because they don't like them instead of ignoring them and spending their energy and time on their family, friends or constructive creativity.

To spend energy and time on setting up a DDoS attack is a big waste of energy and time. Our attackers suffer from a lack of great things in their lives. I feel sorry for them.

However, we should prepare for further aggression.

One suggestion:

Let us compile a list of mail address of all active and sympathizing forum members. In case the website is taken down, we will still be able to communicate. It doesn't need to be mentioned that fake accounts should be used.

Quote from Ecco

The loading screen unfortunately made me lose a couple messages I was in the process of writing. The message body field gets reset when that appears.

same problem but I was saved by Lazarus extension in chrome.
It works too with Firefox.

DDOS attack are strange.
Naive usage is to annoy an opponent, and here we imagine it should be histericalopponents, feeling that we should not exist. At this point, it is not impossibole but it is hard to admit (except as a professional) that people can be so stupid and evil... professionally, there is model for that.

Advanced usage is to cover an APT.
Barty, check that nobody is installing backdoors, or scavenging valuable data (probably you did it since long )...
anyway best protection is to have nothing to loose on the site.

note that some people tried to attack LENR-CANR.org few years ago, and Jed had to say that all was public and ther was nothing to steal.

today the most valuable is
- the mails
- the passwords (use google/facebook/twiter identity federation to avoid having to use a different password)
- private messages