This was a particularly destructive attack, one of the worst yet,
and again, all credit is due to Rich for beating back the hordes.
But the fact is, Empire Burlesque is actually under cyber-attack almost
all the time. Especially in the past few months, the assaults have been
relentless, continuous, from several different directions.
Sometimes
they get through; most of the time they don't, thanks to Rich. I don't
know the provenance of all of these attackers, or their motives, or why
they have singled out this particular site. There might be several
different, unrelated agendas at work (including good old-fashioned
motiveless malignancy). One has suspicions and suppositions of course;
but as the attackers swarm at us out of the dark then retreat back into
the shadows, there is no way of knowing for sure.
But one thing is certain: we will not be silenced by these thugs. As I
said, measures are going forward to make the site more secure; but even
if the attacks grow worse, more sophisticated, more crippling, we will
keep on going. If we have to operate like pirate radio – a ghostly
voice breaking through the static and the jamming whenever we can –
then that's what we'll do. Whatever happens, just keep tuning to this
frequency, and we'll be back.
UPDATE: We are back on the air, but there is still a lot of work to do to clean up the wreckage left behind by the very destructive attacks, so you may run across a glitch or two while thing are being put right. Rich is on the case, so it won't be long, but we must crave your patience in the meantime.
In case of another long black-out in the future, we will post new material at EB's sister site,
Atlantic Free Press. If AFP is also knocked out (sometimes they get that one as well), temporary blogging will carry on at the
old Empire Burlesque site. Again, this is only in the event of a prolonged shut-down. As always, we ask that you keep checking back here, because we will always return.
