Leviathan's Boring Sorta-Blog

Yeah, they screwed up big time by not putting the fact that they were under attack on their status page as soon as they knew, which should have been within an hour or so, tops. This was a gigantic cock-up on LJ's part, since, by not revealing it was an attack, they encouraged their users to believe it was simple incompetence for two days. They should be scolded for failing to update their status page regularly, and for being unforthcoming as to the reason for the downtime.

But they also got attacked last April in a very similar way, and once prior to that, as well, and the symptoms were exactly the same. I was assuming it was a DDoS attack by the end of the first day. LJ's got a good solid network and a good solid infrastructure. Difficulties and downtimes are very rare. So when they do go down, it's a lot more likely to be an attack than some stupidity on their part. We should really assume that until we hear otherwise.