Reviewing The iPhone Could Be Dangerous!

Most of you should have already noticed that Mobile-Review.com, the popular Russian website is down from the past 5 days because of a DDoS attack supposedly by Apple fan boys after the iPhone review was published on the site. The site gets upto 200,000 uniques per day and serves upto 700,000 pages exceeding a bandwidth of 500GB.

Eldar Murtazin, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com posted an open letter today talking about the attack. Here is an excerpt from the letter:

The attackers hope that by crushing Mobile-Review.com, they won’t let our visitors get unbiased information on events in the mobile industry, read independent reviews and share their opinions on forums. In light of the fact that similar attacks can be performed by individuals or small groups of people, we regard this incident as an attempt to impose censorship in the Internet.

When the first attack was unfolding, the Editor-in-Chief of Mobile-Review.com received an anonymous message on his Internet-pager, which read that fans of Apple were behind the attack, as this was a sort of revenge forthe iPhone and the treatment it got over at Mobile-Review.com. Possibly, it is true, however there is a chance that the message was sent in order to put us off the track. It is not a secret that we release “burning”, critical articles that many don’t like.

Murtazin also announced a reward of US$10,000 to any individual or group of individuals who can provide documented information on the mastermind of this attack. You can send all reports to eldar (at) mobile-review (dot) com.