When I saw it hitting my FList this morning I was skeptical at best. It was too vaguely worded, and I couldn't find a source of the rumor. The closest I was able to get was the dreaded, "I have a friend who heard from a friend..."
Yeah, not exactly winning points with me, either.
It was a shitty position to be in, I can tell you. People I knew (personally) were saying they'd been told this by an LJ employee, which was far enough from the source to be questionable but close enough to be possible. Did I say nothing and feel guilty later for not passing on (clearly dubious) information if something DID come of it? Did I say something and contribute to what was likely and hopefully nothing but a rumor?
I really, really wish that LJ had posted something about the DDoS attack. (And I don't know enough about DDoS attacks to know if not talking about them while they're happening is the only way you can mitigate damage, or something.) A statement like "This, specifically, is what's going on," would have gone a long way toward easing the paranoia and irritation that a lot of people were expression on the support boards etc.
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Yeah, not exactly winning points with me, either.
It was a shitty position to be in, I can tell you. People I knew (personally) were saying they'd been told this by an LJ employee, which was far enough from the source to be questionable but close enough to be possible. Did I say nothing and feel guilty later for not passing on (clearly dubious) information if something DID come of it? Did I say something and contribute to what was likely and hopefully nothing but a rumor?
I really, really wish that LJ had posted something about the DDoS attack. (And I don't know enough about DDoS attacks to know if not talking about them while they're happening is the only way you can mitigate damage, or something.) A statement like "This, specifically, is what's going on," would have gone a long way toward easing the paranoia and irritation that a lot of people were expression on the support boards etc.