Russia, LiveJournal, & the DDOS Situation

[chomiji]

I know some folks were surprised that the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that were dragging LJ down the tubes the past week or so are believed by many to be fallout from Russian politics.

synecdochic has written a really interesting article here about the subject, if you want to know more.

(x-posted to my LJ; thanks to james_nicoll for pointing this out.)