Can you hear it ?29 Mar 2021 18:18
"It's day four of the Denial of Service attack against *************.
The scale of this DOS campaign which has now happened twice in the past fortnight is bigger than anything we have faced before. This is not some Supply@ME owning nerd sitting in his underpants in his parent’s basement. This costs serious money and is specifically targeting this website although, overnight, my own website was also under a brief attack as well. But it is the fraud busting not my views on global warming or other matters that has pushed some crooks into action.
(A denial of service attack is when someone sends massive numbers of computers to website at the same time. The traffic blocks legitimate users and eventually, the website goes offline due to the overwhelming requests.)
We've been through this many times before and put in measures to keep us online. What that means for you is that you may have a five second wait before you can access ************* while the system verifies that you are a valid reader.
One aspect of the Denial of Service attack that is working is it can prevent the automatic download of Bearcast to podcast readers. If this is happening to you, use the browser on the device with the podcast app to visit *************, wait five seconds, and sign in. Your downloads may resume.
If they don't, you can always listen to Bearcasts on ************* itself.
And then there is the personal harassment. North Wales Police are investigating the harassment of myself and two other writers by Seth Freedman acting at the instigation of a Zoetic (ZOE) shareholder. But since Mr Freedman’s initial harassment I have received c 50 calls usually from different numbers appearing to be mobiles in Ontario (but not actually being so) or from a private number.If I answer the caller is silent. I do not know if this is Mr Freedman or AN Other but it is clearly harassment and it is a crime.
On Saturday, the first call came at 6.43 AM and woke me, the Mrs and the baby. I put the phone on silent as it is now for almost all of the time, so I miss real calls. There were four other calls by 6.51 AM. Yesterday, call one came at 0.01AM, two more at 0.02 AM and a final ( Private not Ontario) call at 0.03 AM. My phone was on silent so it did not disturb my zzzzzzs or that of anyone else.
The Police have full details of the time of all calls and so could trace the caller by contacting my cell phone provider. I hope they do. C50 phone calls of this nature in the past eight days does, I suggest, constitute harassment.
So what to do? I ask you to bear with us as we deal with the current attempts to gag us. I hope that the Police pull their finger out. Industrial scale harassment of journalists in this manner should not be acceptable in a civilised society.
Meanwhile the entire editorial team here will continue to expose white collar fraud and lying, to give in and not to do so would be the real crime.
Best wishes,
Tom Winnifrith
www.ShareProp