NetRoots Blamed for Lieberman Website Outage

Lieberman accuses Lamont supporters for the outage.

From Joe2006.com’s main page here:

UPDATE ON THE ATTACK ON THE LIEBERMAN CAMPAIGN WEBSITE

STATEMENT FROM SEAN SMITH: “For the past 24 hours the Friends for Joe Lieberman’s website and email has been totally disrupted and disabled, we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents. The campaign has notified the US Attorney and the Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney and the campaign will be filing a formal complaint reflecting our concerns. The campaign has also notified the State Attorney General Dick Blumenthal for his review.”

“We call on Ned Lamont to make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately. Any attempt to suppress voter participation and undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no place in our democracy.”

There is no doubt in my mind that the attackers were democrats that supported Lamont. The FBI will certainly prove this in their investigation. What should be noted is that the kook-fringe of the Democratic Party will use illegal DDoS attacks to stifle the free speech of political opponents.

Let it also be a lesson to others running for office. Don’t skimp on web hosting services. When I worked at Symantec, I used to see DDoS attacks against other Democratic campaign sites during the runup to the 2000 election, so it should be common knowledge that Denial of Service is a risk to the website. Hosting a campaign site should also include the money to harden it against this type of attack.