I got a reply shortly after Drydock posted the info!
I am putting in my order today!
Our email and certain internet services in The Great Southwest has been slowed down remarkably in the last several weeks,
along with several outages.
long winded explanation below.
yhs
prof marvel
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At first I put it down to
too many people downloading porn more people on the web due to covid, but
further queries of my old resources from my prior dayjob has led me to dig out my old toolkit . The data gleaned
led to to the realization that we are experiencing greater than normal internet attacks from the usual suspects
in the far east and former iron curtain. Way more foreign players of "The Great Game **" are involved on the various
Social Media ( ie facebook, twit, news comments, etc) and a combination of a variety of attacks are being reported
by security sites that monitor such things. For example DDOS: Distributed Denial Of Service. Those attacks were
commonly considered simplistic "kiddie scripts" in the dim past but with a combination of well disguised remote botnets
and the resources of server farms run by a State Players, they are now a huge problem until combined efforts of
widespread Security personnel can snuff it. Until it happens again from different places.
As attack traffic,increases so does server load as the vendors try to isolate and remove it. Some regions experience
slowdowns more than others
** The Great Game" was a termcoined by Rudyard Kipling desribing the ongoing spying, political manipulation , and hostilites
during 19th century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan, Persia, India and neighboring territories
in Central and South Asia.
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