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<td><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" color="#666666">Dear
Friends,</font></td>
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<p align="right"><strong><font
color="#666666"><font size="2"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">Thursday 5
December 2019</font></font></font><font
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We'd like to ask you to share <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf">this
report</a> as far and wide as
possible, here's why:</font></h3>
On Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd
November 2019 GreenNet's website and
most of our online services, including
most of our customers’ websites, went
offline for several hours on two
occasions. Our technicians became aware
of the outage on Friday lunchtime and
worked remotely and at our data centre
until the small hours of Saturday
morning to identify the fault and
restore access to websites and emails. <br>
<br>
By about 2AM on Saturday things were
coming back online, but they went down
again later that day. By then we had
revised our initial diagnosis of a
hardware problem, and as we checked
though our logs and discussed with our
upstream provider LDEX, we became aware
that the outage was caused by a
deliberate attack on our infrastructure.
We tweeted updates as we worked to bring
back our services at <a
href="https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP</a><br>
<br>
The attack was a Distributed Denial of
Service (DDoS) which basically hammers
away at our servers with millions of
requests until they run out of capacity
and become unavailable. The volume of
traffic at one point was equivalent to
our Data Centre's entire traffic with
Google, which gives an idea of the scale
of the DDOS - the impact on the Data
Centre was significant enough that they
also had to block access or "blackhole"
a large amount of traffic. <br>
<br>
Once we had got everything back up the
and dust had settled we were able to
carry out some forensic examinations of
our servers and logs. We were able to
glean strong circumstantial evidence
that we believe shows that the target
was an organisation that was publishing
new research that weekend <a
href="https://www.papuansbehindbars.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.papuansbehindbars.org</a>.
<br>
<br>
<div align="center"><b>This is the
report that the attack was aimed at
blocking: </b><b><a
href="http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.papuansbehindbars.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PBB-Jan-2018-Oct-2019-Nov2019.EN_.web_.pdf</a></b><br>
<b><br>
Now we'd like you to please
disseminate it as widely as
possible! </b><br>
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<br>
We've been in contact with TAPOL <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.tapol.org">https://www.tapol.org</a>
and SAFEnet <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://safenet.or.id/2019/08/keepiton-in-papua-and-west-papua">https://safenet.or.id/2019/08/keepiton-in-papua-and-west-papua</a>,
who work closely with PBB and in the
region to promote human rights and to
highlight the plight of political
prisoners, as well as to challenge
internet shutdowns. <br>
<br>
Please promote their important work! We
will be tweeting about this over the
next few days, please retweet, boost and
amplify the message, and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/keepiton">#keepiton</a>!
<br>
<br>
Thanks from all of us at GreenNet, we'd
also really like to say a big thank you
to our customers for all your patience
and support during and after the attack.
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<h3><font si="" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color="white">GreenNet is the ethical Internet
Service Provider that has been connecting people and
groups who work for peace, the environment, gender
equality and human rights since 1986.</font></h3>
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