LJ DDoS attacks

Via mycroftca, some info about the recent LJ outages:

http://putinwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/04/cyber-war-on-russian-activist-bloggers.html
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/bric-yard/russian-blog-site-under-attack

TL:DR - the outages have been caused by large DDoS attacks, apparently aimed at shutting down Russian anti-corruption activists who use LJ.

While I've grumbled about LJ management over many things, I'm definitely not going to blame them for this one. (Though I'd still suggest it as a reason to archive, to DW or elsewhere.)

Edit: The map of where the bots are coming from is interesting.