Peer Steinbrück peerblog.de offline after hacker pressure.
Any German general election campaign is so muted by American standards, an election can sneak up on you and be over before you know it.
However, this time around, an American inspired innovation was coming to the country. Several entrepreneurs sponsored a blog for, but independent of, social democratic SPD party candidate Peer Steinbrück.
The K-landnews team had planned to write about peerblog only if it was found to violate German campaign financing laws, and we were surprised to see news of the blog's demise.
Zombie bots blamed for DDoS attacks were given as the reason, but our resident zombie immediately went "eh?", and in a couple of news articles we found the same doubts.
If the backers and makers of peerblog wanted a resilient site, why not point the domain name to an existing blog service provider, was our zombie's question.
Nonetheless, we hope the German campaigners find the strength to let go of this innovative model.
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