https://voat.co/ has gone dark. https://voat.co/
It might be a DDOS attack or other outside hack. The website 'Is It Down Right Now?' says it is offline for maintenance.
People are talking about it at 8-Chan.
In 2015 they were dropped - Guardian article.
UPDATE (4-21)
VOAT is back up :) -- they had a technical error.https://voat.co/v/announcements/2508506
other sites might be next...says this post ...
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Sent in .... interesting DDOS originating on the internet of things. Video cameras that were not properly secured have been added to bot nets and the data from them is being thrown at servers to overwhelm them as videofiles are very large. This is a big internet attack going on right now taking out lots of sites
ReplyDeletethey explain ....
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