Wow - what an ordeal - but well done, admin - you got us back quick!

[NRaleighLiberal]

That was one freaky, creepy experience - the odd sound, the video - went back, half of DU was gone - then locked out.

Very odd indeed!

[applegrove]

1. You guys are great.

[triron]

2. why did DU go down?

[csziggy]

27. Democratic Underground was vandalized by a script attack on Wednesday afternoon 5/17

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10138421

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Thanks Admin - I was having major withdrawals

[retrowire]

4. We're back!

Hey, right wingers, why attack us? We're just pointing out what Trump is doing and saying.

[Tribalceltic]

11. Because they can

And they are the lowest slimy traitorous perverted scum of the universe. They are much more evil than any anti-christ, demon or pedophile preacher. From the So called "president" to the Legislators, both state and federal, to the voters and supporters!

[retrowire]

20. I like to go with misguided fools at least.

And assholes at most.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Way to go DU team.

[mahannah]

6. well done!

[neeksgeek]

7. Yay!

[mshasta]

8. Very good job

Thank you.... you're my brakingnews source!!

[malaise]

9. I didn't hear the video - shut it down immediately

PHEW!! Admin did a great job.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. I did the same - as soon as it looked like my screen was taken over, I hit the back button.

I just saw a few seconds of the video, but did see the banner statement.

This shit is just so weird.

[retrowire]

21. What was the video of?? I didn't see when the site started faltering. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

23. no idea - really just saw it was a video and went backwards!

[retrowire]

24. Seems like the best response. Nt

[Lithos]

12. A couple of details to raise up

Elad is doing a great job on devops; Skinner and EarlG are rocking on front of house. Great policy to be transparent to the audience here.

Raise up your voice, raise up your glasses. They are kicking butt.

L-

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Spot on, Lithos!

[lostnfound]

17. Thank you! All of you!

[uppityperson]

14. I got the floaty text, tried to reload, and here we are many hrs later

They did good, shutting it down fast and getting it going again.

[sagesnow]

15. Thanks for getting DU back up and running!

Thanks Skinner, EarlG and Elad. You guys rock!

[brewens]

16. Never noticed. You'd think they would pull that crap when most of us aren't working. n/t

[kairos12]

18. Thank you Admin.

[brush]

19. Yes. Thanks. The safeguards put in from the election day hack worked.

[spanone]

22. K&R...

[JimGinPA]

25. I was on when it happened - and when DU came back on I was locked out...

I saw several posts in a thread with that name in GD and then a big pop-up message and then a bunch of black at the top of my monitor. I closed the page and came back to LBN (which is where I bookmarked) and when I came back to GD it happened again. Then DU went down. I didn't see a video though.

[dalton99a]

26. Outstanding job.

[The Wielding Truth]

35. Yep, great job.

[marlakay]

28. It really shows how much computers

Are vulnerable and should be our top priority for security in our nation.

Those of us old enough to remember life before them have worried as we watched more and more of regular life being turned over to them.

As much as I have been involved since the 80's and love my computers I also have been concerned that that is the one thing that could take us down.

In my area last year major lines were cut for ATT and almost all schools, banks, businesses in my area use them as we are in our own little world up in here in Humboldt with 2 choices and Suddenlink sucks.

So what happened? They closed schools, banks etc for almost 3 days.

Almost all voting is computerized now, banking, medical records, social security info, airplanes, everything even bombs.

I have been hoping for years this country is smart enough to pay whatever it takes to have the best hackers working for us.

[The_Casual_Observer]

29. The hacker can go back to eating dog shit

And old Polaroids of his mother.

[ananda]

30. It sort of looked Chinese to me.

Late afternoon, I went to open a DU page and suddenly got a page
of moving black script which I thought might be Chinese.

I ex-ed the page immediately and hoped my computer would not be
infected.

So far so good.

[NRaleighLiberal]

31. I ran a malware check on my laptop as soon as I got off of DU - all clean.

[No Vested Interest]

37. Good to know. nt

[KT2000]

32. Thank you -

I appreciate the speed that this came back. I bet they will try it again because the news is so hot right now.

[nolabear]

33. Happy to be back. Great work guys.

[smirkymonkey]

34. Thank YOU! Great job!

[seta1950]

36. Thanks

And scary

[Comrade Donald]

38. Thanks DU. I knew something was wrong when a

Long post about Anthony Weiner came up.

[madokie]

39. I was totally

freaked out when I came in from my chores and couldn't get on. I'm like ok I can go to a couple other places to read to keep up but kept coming back here to see if we were back on. Finally after what seemed like days here we were again.

Must make a contribution right the hell now. Because without this place I'm lost

[brettdale]

40. Yes well done

To all the mods for getting the site up so quick1

[mopinko]

41. thanks the goddess that we didnt have to hang around the fb page this morn.

omg. the trolls. pushing the same shit they were pushing at the shut down. the seth rich thing. smoke screen du jour.
the bots. sweet jesus, the bots. it's like a bad scify movie.