IG Report on FCC "DDOS Attack."
Aug. 13th, 2018 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrusAfter John Oliver called on viewers to tell the FCC to leave the net neutrality rules alone via his "gofccyourself.com" website, traffic promptly overwhelmed the server. The FCC rushed out a press statement that it had been subject to a DDOS attack.
Many of us didn't believe it. We argued the FCC (particularly Chairman Pai) was trying to hide the fact that so many people hated his policy that traffic overwhelmed the server.
Turns out we were right, sort of.
It wasn't Pai, but FCC CIO David Bray. He simply did not want to admit that the system was overwhelmed. He also made a sap judgment based on the DNS traffic that was disproven by his tech people a few hours later. When it became clear that it wasn't a DDOS, Pai refused to back down and admit he had jumped the gun.
In fact, Pai continued to misrepresent information to Congress. As is the case with clever lawyers, there were a bunch of technically accurate but utterly misleading facts marshaled in support of a conclusion Pai knew was false.
Pai better hope the Democrats do not take over in November.
Link to IG Report: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/fcc-oig-roi-ecfs-ddos-08072018.pdf
Many of us didn't believe it. We argued the FCC (particularly Chairman Pai) was trying to hide the fact that so many people hated his policy that traffic overwhelmed the server.
Turns out we were right, sort of.
It wasn't Pai, but FCC CIO David Bray. He simply did not want to admit that the system was overwhelmed. He also made a sap judgment based on the DNS traffic that was disproven by his tech people a few hours later. When it became clear that it wasn't a DDOS, Pai refused to back down and admit he had jumped the gun.
In fact, Pai continued to misrepresent information to Congress. As is the case with clever lawyers, there were a bunch of technically accurate but utterly misleading facts marshaled in support of a conclusion Pai knew was false.
Pai better hope the Democrats do not take over in November.
Link to IG Report: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/fcc-oig-roi-ecfs-ddos-08072018.pdf
