No, I'm pretty sure that's not it -- it's not slowness, it's a limit. It's 100% consistent for some of us: I haven't worked out the exact maximum, but it's something like a 500 - 1000 character limit. Anything over that simply hangs silently for me, no matter the posting UI, post vs. comment, post vs. preview, or anything...
If you read lj_maintenance or the_lj_herald, you'll see that LJ is under a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Of course, all of the folks in the various "Strikethrough 07" communities think it is some sort of additional problem, and they want loads of compensation for it :-), but those of us who work with computers understand it quite well.
Oh, I'm well aware that it's a response to the DDoS (see my own journal for a modest amount of discussion). I'm still trying to figure out what the motivation for the short-entries-only rule is, though. I do this for a living, and it's a somewhat odd response to the problem. My best guess is that they're limiting to a single IP packet, but I can't quite figure out *why*...
So you do computer security for a living? So I do. You should see the posts under my tag "security". I'm not sure their motivation for the short entries only.
Among other things, anyway. We're a bit too small to have a dedicated security person, but the other Architect and I both keep a close eye on the security equation. (Admittedly, he's more focused on the packets, and I'm more focused on the injection attacks these days...)
I remember seeing your post on botnet attacks. I'd love to get a tutorial on botnets for ACSAC (http://www.acsac.org/), for which I'm tutorial chair (hint hint... the deadline has been extended to this coming Sunday)
Nah, I'm not the guy to give it -- I'm decently knowledgeable, but no expert. You have to keep in mind, I'm a hardcore generalist: that's why I like swimming in the startup pool, where a really broad grounding is usually what's needed. So I'm great at the big picture, and at designing and engineering systems, but I'm rarely the person to be lecturing on a focused topic...
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