Recently the Global Atheist Convention website suffered a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which caused the Global Atheist Convention and the Atheist Foundation of Australia websites to be taken offline.
It would seem a mini war had broken out online between atheists and believers (nothing new there then) after a systematic DDoS attack against the Atheist Foundation of Australia and Global Atheist Convention Websites.
This is the what Atheist Foundation of Australia say about this incident themselves:-
Recently the Global Atheist Convention website suffered a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which caused the Global Atheist Convention and the Atheist Foundation of Australia websites to be taken offline. This was a network attack and we have been informed it was specifically aimed at our websites. While we do not know source or reason for the attacks, they came in the wake of news that Global Atheist Convention has already sold 1,000 tickets and will be the largest gathering of atheists and other freethinkers in Australia’s history. This may have been not just an attack on atheism, but an attack on freedom of speech.
It would appear that as a result of this attack, a revenge attack (against God?) is being organised on Facebook
Minute of prayer in response to the Rise Of Atheism Convention DDOS attack.
As you may already be aware, recently the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention websites were the target of a significant DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which began on Monday 19 October.
This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).
The prayer minute will be at exactly 8pm (Eastern Standard Time) and 9am (Greenwich Mean Time) on Sunday 8 November 2009.
The prayer can be about anything you want (but say it as frequently as possible in the minute we have assigned to ensure DDOS is achieved) or to whomever god you want. Its mostly directed at the Christian god so as to ensure we don’t get too many return to senders from other gods.
However, all believers can rest easy as atheist blogger P Z Myers won’t be joining in:-
The Atheist’s Revenge!
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to join in, because whatever I have planned for that time, whatever it may be, will be far more interesting and productive than babbling to an invisible man. I’m pretty sure I won’t be needed, though; I understand all modern prayers are first funneled through a 110 baud modem, then passed further upstairs by telegraph, then pony express riders gallop it over to the Pearly Gates, and then a rewritten version is passed on to a team of long-dead Sumerian scribes for transcription into cuneiform on wax plates, and then and only then is it in a format that a bronze age patriarchal deity can understand. I don’t think it’ll take much to swamp the celestial bandwidth (which actually explains a lot, if you think about it.)
Phew, if P Z Myers is not involved, we’ll all be OK then.
I will say in the atheists defense that it is certainly no fun to be subject to a DDOS attack and so I personally couldn’t and wouldn’t condone such an attack against atheist websites (I agree with the atheists, that if God wants to take down their websites, He is more than capable of doing it Himself). It would seem however, that they do not know the origin or reason for the attack and so I guess, if in doubt, blame God, or His followers…yeah why not!