Well it seems that the Marine Corps' blanket embargo on Social Networking Sites (SNS) may have been justified. Twitter was the victim of a denial of service attack that began at about 9 a.m. creating a complete Twitter blackout. The service was back up after about three hours. The service's last outage was May 8. Facebook and Livejournal were also targeted by the attack but the scale was smaller. While Twitter believes it was a coordinated attack, the responsible parties may never be identified. What these attacks may mean is unclear. What we may be in need of is a Gunnery Sergeant for the Internet.
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