bbc website down?

[fishfinger]

It's back!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

U75 has been playing up as well

 

[editor]

U75 has been playing up as well

I made the mistake of writing a Wirefresh article about the outage and linking it to the thread here. Google made me the #2 result for "BBC site down" and whammo - 4,200+ hits in about 10 minutes before Wirefresh wobbled, swiftly followed by urban75.

 

[Mation]

oops

 

[shagnasty]

It's buggered my plans to watch something I downloaded earlier from the iPlayer, because it can't confirm 'media rights'.

Use a programme called get iplayer and just download it unprotected

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I made the mistake of writing a Wirefresh article about the outage and linking it to the thread here. Google made me the #2 result for "BBC site down" and whammo - 4,200+ hits in about 10 minutes before Wirefresh wobbled, swiftly followed by urban75.

That's got to do your page stats some good though!

 

[editor]

That's got to do your page stats some good though!

Well it would have done them a bit more good if Wirefresh hadn't blown a ruddy gasket when the traffic started flowing in! With all those hits my earnings on AdSense could have risen to - well - as much as a fiver.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I made the mistake of writing a Wirefresh article about the outage and linking it to the thread here. Google made me the #2 result for "BBC site down" and whammo - 4,200+ hits in about 10 minutes before Wirefresh wobbled, swiftly followed by urban75.

ah, I see. Don't do it again please. BBC and U75 going down at the same time isn't good.

 

[EastEnder]

I made the mistake of writing a Wirefresh article about the outage and linking it to the thread here. Google made me the #2 result for "BBC site down" and whammo - 4,200+ hits in about 10 minutes before Wirefresh wobbled, swiftly followed by urban75.

That's disappointing. For a moment there I thought u75 was as big a target for the techo-miscreants as the beeb!

 

[shaman75]

Latest totally unconfirmed rumour: It was Anonymous wot done it.

I found a blog post: http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbc-site-hacked-after-26th-march.html

It suggests anonymous pulled the bbc in retaliation to their coverage of the protests. The source seems to be a UK Uncut activist.

Did some looking around and haven't found anything to suggest an attack, but there is an Operation Britain about to launch by the looks of it.

http://search.mibbit.com/networks/AnonOps/#OpBritain

There is some mention of UK Uncut in the suggested targets, with relation to the EDL, who do seem to be spamming their facebook page repeatedly.

 

[editor]

I don't think attacking the BBC would be the greatest idea. After all, there's a lot more worthy targets out there if DoS attacks are your thang.

 

[Kippa]

Wasn't there a switch that the government could flick to turn off BBC Radio many years ago? Pitty they cannot do that with murdoch's media empire.

 

[peterkro]

If BBC is off for 24 hours don't the submarines assume it's nuclear war and will retaliate against Moscow/DC. Tries to find masking tape for windows.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Wasn't there a switch that the government could flick to turn off BBC Radio many years ago? Pitty they cannot do that with murdoch's media empire.

Well, I'm sure Murdoch has a switch to change the government if it annoys him or tries to make him pay taxes

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbc-site-hacked-after-26th-march.html

 

[editor]

http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/bbc-site-hacked-after-26th-march.html

That link has already been posted although I can't see any mention of the BBC in the original facebook page.

 

[Pingu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/29/bbc-website-down-offline