Outage restored
This blog was down for about 18 hours starting at midday yesterday. According to the overlords at Google, who run the Blogger platform on which I'm writing, their automated police system detected "malware or other malicious content" on the site. When this happens, they pull the plug first and ask questions later.
But today I've been reinstated, which is good. They won't tell me anything about what happened, of course. And so I can only trust that whatever the problem was, has been corrected. If the blog disappears again, you'll know what likely happened.
I am wondering if the issue is connected with some strange traffic on the site lately. Bots from somewhere will come on and click thousands of times in an hour, often focusing on a handful of posts from months or years ago. For all the detail Google's traffic reports provide, they don't give much of a clue as to what that's all about.
Anyway, thanks for your patience and your concern.
Oh that's creepy, about the bots. I wonder if that's because your blog contains political content, and they're seeking-out where they can screw-around with the next election.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a classic, and rather low-intellect, hack. You know you've touched a nerve among the ruling class when they flood your servers and/or toss out your petitions. Yes, the Google platform is "wonky." Time to move to Substack.
ReplyDelete“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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Jack, you write: "For all the detail Google’s traffic reports provide, they don't give much of a clue as to what that's all about."
ReplyDeleteIt's possible that Google itself is the source of this phenomenon. Google is in the clicks business. Increased clicks (juiced or not) are justification for increased rates for advertising. The lack of transparency on. Google's part may be a side-effect of the fact they have the motive, means and opportunity to anonymize the sources of these clicks.
Welcome back Jack. I was hoping that you didn’t pull the plug….again. Let’s not do THAT again 🙂.
ReplyDeleteI’ve experienced inexplicable glitches across all manner of sites, including banks, over at least the past month or two. I unknowingly attribute it to “A so-called I.” But that’s just a wild arse guess.
ReplyDeleteIMO it's more likely a result of cyber warfare: I work for a large corporation and ever since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and even more so with the war on Iran my company PC has been receiving security updates almost daily if not more frequently. My guess is that this situation is under-reported at the behest of the feds.
DeleteMy paranoid brain immediately went to "RLee3 has more connections than we thought."
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