key Internet infrastructure points for weaknesses and limitations, they may well be testing more than one physical server farm.

I'm in CT and can load reddit.com ok now. But the article says the NH company that was attacked was out for 2 hours this morning and is back online.

Must be Russia.

Assange's Internet connection was severed last weekend. Since then we've seen more emails and threats about Kaine and Brasile. Plus the corruption videos. She's successfully blacked out most of the media but not everything.

OMG, it's the Communist Reddit Threat!

I read something the other night, probably on or linked from here:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/brace-yourselves-source-code-pow...

Risk Assessment —
Brace yourselves—source code powering potent IoT DDoSes just went public
Release could allow smaller and more disciplined Mirai botnet to go mainstream.

Dan Goodin - 10/2/2016, 5:39 PM

A hacker has released computer source code that allows relatively unsophisticated people to wage the kinds of extraordinarily large assaults that recently knocked security news site KrebsOnSecurity offline and set new records for so-called distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Further Reading
Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net
reported on Saturdaytargeted Krebs with 620 gigabits per secondpeaked at more than 1 terabit per second

Until now, the botnets created with the newer and technically more sophisticated Mirai have been greatly outnumbered by those based on its rival Bashlight, with about 233,000 infected devices versus 963,000 respectively. Friday's release could allow the smaller and more disciplined Mirai, which Russian antivirus provider Dr. Web briefly profiled last week, to go mainstream. That, in turn, could turn the mass compromise of cameras and other Internet-connected devices into a full-blown epidemic that could push record DDoSes to ever-higher volumes. In an e-mail to Ars, Drew wrote:

There is already a surge in botnet operators attempting to find and exploit IoT devices in order to gain access to uniform and sizable botnet networks. These botnets are largely being used in [DDoS-for ransom] campaigns, which is netting the operators significant revenue and the ability to spend more time to improve their capabilities and add additional layers of sophistication.

By releasing this source code, this will undoubtedly enable a surge in botnet operators to use this code to start a new surge in consumer and small business IoT compromises. And while most of the current IoT compromises have been around a very specific telnet exploit, I predict that botnet operators–eager to command multi hundred thousand botnet nodes–will be searching for a larger inventory of IoT exploits to take advantage of. This could be the start of a surge of attacks against IoT devices in the consumer space. ...

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Further Reading
Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by >145k hacked cameras

He said other researchers who have doubted his estimates of 1.2 million devices making up the combined Bashlight and Mirai botnets lack the network visibility of Level 3, which as one of the world's biggest backbones, sees a more complete picture. DDoS mitigation services, by contrast, often see only the traffic and IP addresses that are attacking their client, he said.

According to Krebs, the Mirai source code was posted to the hacking community HackForums by a user with the handle Anna-senpai. Krebs said the leaker provided the following explanation:

When I first go in DDoS industry, I wasn’t planning on staying in it long. I made my money, there’s lots of eyes looking at IOT now, so it’s time to GTFO. So today, I have an amazing release for you. With Mirai, I usually pull max 380k bots from telnet alone. However, after the Kreb [sic] DDoS, ISPs been slowly shutting down and cleaning up their act. Today, max pull is about 300k bots, and dropping.

While it's encouraging that Internet service providers are starting to contain the botnet, but the extraordinary firepower isn't likely to die overnight. With the source code now in the public domain, the technically superior Mirai botnets could easily surpass 1 million devices in the coming weeks. That, in turn, could stoke a battle of botnets that inflicts massive collateral damage. ...

And it sounds as though these guys are trying to force better security to keep internet users safe, which would make sense.