Technical Difficulties

You probably noticed the highly annoying Cloudflare message that says its checking your browser or introduces a fun captcha when you’re trying to access the site.

Yeah, I know, please stop sending me emails asking what it is or why. I do not have enough time to answer you individually and I don’t like it either. It makes writing posts extremely difficult on my end.

Short answer- we’re getting hammered by DDOS attacks daily. Wanna know by who? Well, there’s a few. Some overseas, some domestic. Some linked, some not. I did some digging on the current one that took us offline for a few hours this morning and this is what came back:

"ip":
13.65.168.104

"country_name":
United States

"state_prov":
Texas

"city":
San Antonio

"latitude":
29.42458

"longitude":
-98.49461

"time_zone":
America/Chicago

"isp":
Microsoft Corporation

"currency":
US Dollar

"ip":
52.167.169.102

"country_name":
United States

"state_prov":
Virginia

"city":
Boydton

"latitude":
36.66744

"longitude":
-78.38840

"time_zone":
America/New_York

"isp":
Microsoft Corporation

"currency":
US Dollar

"ip":
51.11.246.188

"country_name":
France

"state_prov":
Ile-de-France

"city":
Paris

"latitude":
48.85718

"longitude":
2.34141

"time_zone":
Europe/Paris

"isp":
Microsoft Corporation

"currency":
Euro

I wonder why Microsoft would want us shut down? Probably has nothing to do with us, our message, or our audience. We’re catching a little more than just flak, so I think we’re racetracking around the target(s). And we have no plans on stopping.

You should be using Linux anyway.

A little commie propaganda music, shoved right back at ya, Bill.

No matter how hard you try, you can’t stop us now.

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

31 Comments

  1. Recon October 4, 2020 at 11:30

    ive been getting this for over a year. No matter what I do. Alot of times I am denied access to the site and cant get in at all. Its frustrating as I would love to read your site. When I do get in I try to read as much as I can and catch up on what ive missed. Im in Georgia usa so wouldnt think it would be an issue but who knows. Ive also tried using a vpn and it doesnt seem to help. Oh well. Hope yall can figure out how to stop the attacks and let the regular folks in with little to no issues. Keep up the good writing.

    • NC Scout October 4, 2020 at 11:31

      We’re doing the best we can.

      • Dan October 4, 2020 at 18:23

        You guys are doing great! This chickenshit like backstabbing from liberals just let’s me know I am coming to one of the best jewels the internet has to offer. Keep up the good work, and hold your heads high, and the middle finger higher. To hell with them.
        Dan

  2. Anonymous October 4, 2020 at 11:31

    5

  3. James Carpenter aka "Felix" October 4, 2020 at 11:34

    If captchas help in protecting this site then they are GOOD.
    Even paranoids can have enemies.
    Patriots? Apparently they have even more. Truth and love of America are toxic to some.
    Quit shaking holy water on the Devil and maybe he’ll just go away?

  4. wwes October 4, 2020 at 11:56

    I hate the captchas, and they keep me out sometimes when I am on the laptop at work, BUT I understand that they help keep the site going, and I’m glad for them because of that. I appreciate all that y’all are doing to keep the site going and the news flowing.
    Thanks for the great site, and the tireless efforts to keep it running!

  5. Coot October 4, 2020 at 11:57

    A little extra work to read you but I dont mind fuck the commies

    • Johnny Paratrooper October 4, 2020 at 13:12

      I often mind fuck commies.
      L,m,a,o, I, love, commas,
      Just teasing you a little. I enjoy the accidental play on words you wrote. I was a literature major, so I love a happy mistake as much as the next guy. That’s some great Sunday afternoon humor. I needed that.

  6. Johnny Paratrooper October 4, 2020 at 12:38

    Kick’em in the teeth guys.
    Don’t forget to report this to the proper authorities.
    I am sure the white hats would love to track this.
    Also, It makes me proud to be on the team.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oPCA-ATW7U

    Take that NWO. Listen and learn. ‘Cause you are gonna get hurt. Bigly and badly.

    Keep pushing and you’ll find the Airborne Ranger answer knocking on your door, your roof, and places you didn’t know you had.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyt0ViDtJ_w

    Some jam music while you work.

    • Randolph Scott October 4, 2020 at 13:20

      Well just who are the ‘whitehats’ and where are they located? Have fun trying to report this to any authority. What actually needs to be done is for some really good stealthy hackers to DOX the evil bastards and those who would suppress our fundamental rights.

      The days of playing nice to get along are OVER!

      • Curious Passerby October 4, 2020 at 13:48

        It happens, you just don’t hear about it. 4Chan often has stories of hackers hitting lefties. They’ve infiltrated antifa comms a few times and doxxed some of them.

      • Johnny Paratrooper October 4, 2020 at 14:20

        Don’t be so defeatist Randolph Scott. It’s bad for morale and isn’t accurate.
        There are millions and millions of patriots in this country.
        We are everywhere. It is the other guys who should be concerned. Not us.

  7. Johnny Paratrooper October 4, 2020 at 13:03

    “In 2010, Microsoft began construction of a $500 million data center in Boydton. In 2014, $350 million was spent on its expansion.[12]”

    From Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boydton%2C_Virginia

    Adjusted for inflation(Head math), We have a $1,200,000,000 billion dollar weapon pointed right at our head. I would suspect the rebuilt the old Randolph Macon College because it would likely have large, thick stone walls, and good EMF protections.

    That’s pretty cool AP Staff. Very Cool.

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/

    They began testing their new weapon in 2018. It takes years to work out the bugs and kinks for Data centers. I have worked on a few for banks.

    There are about 12 Data centers in San Antonio connected to Microsoft. Maybe more. This is one of their newest, and most powerful toys.

    Sounds like they are testing their weapons. Last week America was NAILED by a massive attack. It was barely in the news.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/microsoft-declares-its-underwater-data-center-test-was-a-success/

    This article on underwater sealed Data Centers is from 9/14/2020 and it appears(To me) that they are testing these things after they did a service check last month.

    Looks like they test fired another new toy on you AP Staff. Also, How on earth would we disconnect this thing?

    Amazing… And this might be linked by fiber optical cable to France, despite it being off the coast of Scotland.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MENA Could be bouncing from Pakistan/Turkey through Paris.

    MENA stands for Middle East North Africa. Sounds like you pissed off the Mohammedans AP.

    https://www.equinix.com/locations/europe-colocation/france-colocation/paris-data-centers/

    Great work guys. If you need more intel dance monkey stuff, Lemme know and I can dig around some more. Though I am sure you are tracking on all this already.

    That’s WILD dudes. WILD.

    Total cost of this weapon was probably about $12,000,000,000. Kinda makes me proud…

    • Curious Passerby October 4, 2020 at 13:44

      IPs mean nothing in this day and age. Read Krebs on security https://krebsonsecurity.com/ Someone willing to do the work to knock the site offline could easily camouflage their location and use compromised computers anywhere in the world. Criminals hire out botnets for these kinds of attacks. Your folks’ computer could be part of it and they would never know. They don’t charge much, either. A few hundred dollars can buy you an attack on a site. Krebs literally wrote the book on these kinds of attacks: https://www.amazon.com/Spam-Nation-Organized-Cybercrime-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00L5QGBL0/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
      It’s pretty good. He’s known well enough in the cyber security blogging community, even the hackers talk to him. He’s gone to Russia to personally interview the big cyber criminals to learn about how they work. They’re happy to spill the beans on their associates and competitors, so he gets some pretty good info.

      Krebs did the 911 outage, too: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/whos-behind-mondays-14-state-911-outage/ Looks like two large provider companies screwed up and blamed each other for the issues. These two companies have previously screwed up the 911 system and since changed their names.

      • Johnny Paratrooper October 4, 2020 at 14:07

        Yes. Computers are weapons. And like all weapons, they can be used for good or evil.
        The radio had a great effect on the Cold War. As did the $20 AK-47(adjusted for inflation) The saying used to be the $5 AK.
        Today, Social Media, Apps, Digital Television, and Computers are the new frontline in the Cold War.
        The firearm has merely been reduced to the self defense against the effects of Mind War.
        Food however, is the real weapon they use to use for regional and continental siege warfare.

  8. Jose October 4, 2020 at 13:13

    You send an email update with part of the first paragraph every time you post an article. If things get worse, just send the entire thing. Keep in mind if you are catching flak you must be over the target. Keep up the great work.

  9. Curious Passerby October 4, 2020 at 13:17

    Funny how all the sites I like keep getting DDOSd. Almost like some people can’t be allowed to have their own things.

  10. Chris October 4, 2020 at 14:05

    A lot of the time they forge IPs. Probably has nothing to do with Microsoft. Now if it traced back to the Democrat Party, that might be plausible….

    • NC Scout October 4, 2020 at 14:19

      If it were just one, yeah probably.

      Three…nah.

  11. An AZ Minuteman October 4, 2020 at 18:18

    Can’t stop the signal.

    I’d bet their using VPN’s at least to mask who they are. All we can really know about them is they are enemies of freedom. So fuck em.

    The chair is against the wall,
    The chair is against the wall
    The igloo is big.
    The igloo is big.

    • NC Scout October 4, 2020 at 19:32

      No, they’re not.

  12. vyt1az October 4, 2020 at 19:14

    At first glance this looks like someone rented some US and European MS Azure instances to DOS your site. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/product-categories/compute/

    It only takes 20min to sign up for an account, get assigned a quick pool of compute instances with public IPs that have been used hundreds of times by other accounts, smash your site, and then shut it down before MS or your ISP can manually respond.

    It’s just as easy to do the same thing with AWS services.

    I’d be very curious to know what their response is to an abuse report. If they do nothing then I’d consider them complicit.
    https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/engage/cars

    • NC Scout October 4, 2020 at 19:31

      They haven’t responded.

  13. keithmadmin October 4, 2020 at 19:15

    Someone doesn’t like what you are saying, only reason a site like this gets a DDOS attack.

    My guess would be the Unsafe Spaces interview, lot of information there that A/B/R members would not want widely known.

    Keep up the good work, captcha isn’t a problem.

    • NC Scout October 4, 2020 at 19:30

      We were getting hit hard before that, but, I’m sure that helped things. :)

      • Matt October 5, 2020 at 16:09

        Scout,

        You mentioned that we should be using Linux. I’ve always been a Mac guy, but have just about reached my limit with Apple. Could you do an article Linux? Something for us Neanderthals? It could be approaching the time to make the leap.

        Matt

        • NC Scout October 5, 2020 at 16:16

          Actually, iOS is a version of Linux. So with Mint you’ll be about 90% there already.

          But it is something I should write up.

  14. GK October 4, 2020 at 19:33

    Sweet! Great Job AP!
    Have been going into the containment zone every day for the past 2 months, and I can say unequivocally, “real folk outnumber the communist scum about 1,000 to 1.” Literally, have heard one person on the MSNBC talking points. ONE!

  15. Anonymous October 4, 2020 at 22:17

    4.5

  16. Matt October 6, 2020 at 06:55

    NC Scout:

    There is a workaround, and I think you should publish it in a new article so it is not buried in the comments here, and everyone can see it and use it.

    I have found that if I get the Cloudfare screen, if I wait for 5 seconds and then just highlight the URL in the browser and press ENTER, the entire Cloudfare hangup is bypassed and I am able to view the American Partisan page. Hitting the page refresh button may also work. BUT, I also noted that upon doing this, the HTTPS lock in the browser bar shows a slash through it, which means the connection is unsecured. I then have to left-click on the American Partisan link in the upper-left corner of the page and open and then click Open Link in New Tab. When the new tab opens the American Partisan homepage, and the HTTPS lock no longer has the slash through it, meaning the connection is secured.

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