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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by adrianmonk on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:32PM (#22162870)
On a possibly-related subject, these three things seem like a big coincidence when taken together:

(1) Yesterday I noticed Wikipedia was way slower than normal. Article pages took ~30 seconds to load sometimes. (Down Detector agrees this: https://downdetector.com/status/wikipedia/)

(2) Yesterday, Hacker News had a headline Wikipedia was accessible in Turkey for the first time in years. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22153304) Some people in that thread also noticed the coincidence between this and #1.

(3) Now this story about cyberattacks from (or on behalf of) Turkey.

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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by nl on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:33PM (#22164551)
These attacked occurred in 2018 and 2019.
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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by adrianmonk on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:12PM (#22165523)
That's not how I read it. First of all, the headline says "recent". The article mentions some attacks in 2018 and 2019, but it also says the "broader series of attacks is ongoing".
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Re:Hackers acting in Turkey's interests believed to be behin... by nl on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:01PM (#22166330)
Ok.

I don't understand what the original post is implying then.

These aren't denial of service attacks, so what is the connection between Wikipedia being slow and some attacks that started in 2018 and are continuing now?

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