Suspected Intervention In Online Bullion Markets By National Interests

Are you a precious metals dealer and have you experienced compromised web performance on your website, whether it be slow load times, or total removal from the world wide web? Get in touch, Bernank wants to know…

It has come to my attention, through the processes of coding the compare metals tools, that many dealers, including but not limited to:

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Goldinfo.net (still down)

LibertyCPM.com

GoldSilver.com

TexMetals.com (still experiencing downtime)

ProvidentMetals.com (was down for almost half the day today)

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have experienced significant downtimes in the past 2 week period. According to my data crawling tool, it appears that these websites were taken out relatively simply, through a brute force distributed denial of service attack. My hunch on this is basically because my tool grabs all of those dealer pages every 45 seconds, and records the prices, the time taken to record, and other statistics. All cases of these bullion dealers being taken down were very sudden. The time taken to grab the metal prices did not expand in a linear fashion, but rather, my data gathering tool reports that literally in between the 45 second interval, the websites went from reporting at avg. response time, to being unresponsive. This type of behavior is most easily explained by a distributed denial of service attack. A distributed denial of service attack can be done with as little as 1 computer (if a webserver is configured improperly and does not limit connections per IP address) or up to 10,000 for a large, load-balanced, “smart’ system which automatically tries to filter bad traffic out instead of letting it flood the traffic gates of your server.

I understand some of these website take downs were for what was ascribed to “routine maintenance’ but really, based on the results I’m seeing here, I think some dealers need to come out and let the public in on the extent to which they are targets for what can only be described as cyber crime, on the web. I cannot hypothecate on the true nature of these attacks without more information. However, it is my firm belief that, unless it is some coincidence that 5 of the major online bullion dealers have taken to doing maintenance within a very tight, similar timeframe, my hunch is that these patriots have been subject to unwarranted and extremely prejudiced cyber crime.

So please, if you are a bullion dealer and have been experiencing these sorts of issues, feel free to reach out to me at Bernank AT compare silver prices DOT com (replace @ and . ) I would like to hear more about your stories, perhaps we can all work together to shed some light on what is surely an unconstitutional afternoon hobby for some nerd at the NSA.

Till I finish paying off the debt on this East African Studies Degree,

Bernie Shmuelle

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