Submitted by Katie Hellmuth on | 0 Comments
As a website producer, I'm not a big fan of GoDaddy for a few reasons:
- their admin area is hard to deal with,
- they restrict website owners from doing some usually basic things on their websites, albeit in the name of security,
- it really bothers me that they use sex to sell domain names and web hosting,
- and I find their customer service to be not the friendliest.
That said, I think it beyond arrogant, over the moon arrogant, to the next galaxy arrogant for hackers to have the nerve to take down the GoDaddy servers and cripple so many small businesses, which is what happened on September 10th, 2012 when one person, supposedly aligned with that group Anonymous did just that.
See here:
....and then...
By taking down GoDaddy's DNS, the attacker hacker paralyzed not just website owners who have their websites hosted on the server (think electric grid...the electricity comes from GoDaddy to keep the lights on at your house, as well as other things like to complete a sale, accept your logging into something, etc), but for people who bought domains from GoDaddy and host elsewhere (think more business owners, wedding couples who have a wedding website that forwards to TheKnot or something), those guys were blacked out too.
Apparently, this attack was done to expose GoDaddy's level of security, which the hacker may have hoped impacted GoDaddy's involvement with SOPA, one of the federal governments attempts at creating laws around cyber security.
Many Internet folks don't like government involvement in their new frontier, where someone can create something in minutes just about, and have a business. Lots of red tape and taxes gone.
However, exposing a security hole only adds to anxiety about lawlessness on the Internet. Especially how this attacker continues to threaten to take GoDaddy down again.
It's like, if there aren't police out there protecting us, then a business would have to resort to payoff tactics like in the Wild West or 1970's NYC where business owners paid gang thugs to "protect" them, aka not beat them up and trash their store.
This is so maddening to me because it's not helping this beautiful space of the Internet, where there really is freedom for all. This guy, and others like him, censure us, and make us scared to talk. "Will he take my site down because I opposed him and tweeted something mean about him?!" These people are not protecting our freedom, they are dissolving it. Their egos are replacing our freedoms, and it's the most selfish thing around. It is self-sustainable censorship that is mandated by fear, instead of mandated by a government like in China.
Shame on you, and shame on your ego. Good for you that you're so smart and clever than you can find an opening and inject cyber poison.
#ick.
