Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] collateral damage
From: jassechan at gmail.com (Jasse Chan)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 08:28:02 -0700
References: <d5717cf652d4703a00d0bf26a0db0d7f@reid.org>

Oh my!

Thank you for monitoring that!

I assume that the LUG servers have backups in the cloud?

jasse

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 8:25 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
wrote:

> Back in the Good Old Days you needed to be near a war to be subject to
> accidental damage from the two sides shooting at each other. Or you
> could hear the explosions if you were close enough.
>
> The LUG server (which is physically in Fremont, California, across the
> bay from Silicon Valley) has in the past few days been bombarded with
> millions of unfriendly transmissions from network locations in western
> Asia. Mostly from Belarus. It is not the kind of system that these
> attacks are designed to hurt, so there has not been any damage other
> than system overload, but it's unsettling.
>
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Jasse Chan

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