Granted, Reddit spurred a few false leads rumors about missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi and various people carrying bags at the Marathon (which was also one of the suspect identifiers investigators were looking for anyway), but the consensus seems
Reddit, for those unfamiliar, is a popular site that consists entirely of user-generated content. “Redditors,†or users, can either vote a post up or down. The site's “front page†consists of its most popular posts. Reddit's thousands of threads on
Reddit Outages Due To Malicious DDoS Attack The self-styled “front page of the Internet†was not working for some time, as the site itself underwent a flood of traffic that has been attributed to what is known as a “distributed denial of service attack
Fueled by Twitter, online forums like Reddit and 4Chan, smartphones and relays of police scanners, thousands of people played armchair detective as police searched for men who turned out to be suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen
Reddit has not offered any clues as to who is attacking it or why it thinks the attack is malicous, except to say that these problems are not caused by a normal increase of users coming to the site to read about the situation
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