Mobile-Review is down due to rabid Apple zealots

Mobile-Review is probably hands down one of my favorite websites for cellphone news and reviews. While some people may think several thousand words pieces are too long and that their English translations are a little bit crude, all I see is a group of Russian individuals who truly love mobile phones more than most of the American and other European sites out there on the internets.

The head of the site, Eldar Murtazin, is an awesome guy and after meeting him at the S60 Summit in Madrid (thank you Nokia) he became a great friend. Recently he wrote a piece about the iPhone that pissed a lot of people off. It pissed them off so much that they started a denial of service attack on his site. Check out the email Eldar just sent me:

Stefan,

After publishing article about iPhone positioning and some quotation on Russian part of Mobile-Review.com we received warnings from Apple fans that they could close site. Today, we are under DDOS attack and site is not available for readers. We try to filter traffic but too much computers send empty requests. I receive message from someone that this attack will show how iPhone is supreme above all other mobile phones. We try to solve this problem, but it takes some time.

If you could put some information about this on your site, it will be great. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Never think that Apple fans could be SO aggressive.

Eldar has someone else translate his articles so don’t even think of making a crack at his English, but anyway I want to touch on a little something called respect.

One of the writers on this blog (Will) has an iPhone. Personally I hate the damn thing, but whatever he chooses to use as his mobile has no effect on me, I respect his choice because he is an awesome guy. People often ask me why I don’t check out forum A or B or C, it is because people don’t respect each other. Sony Ericsson fans hate Nokia fans. Nokia fans think anything not made my Nokia is crap. Samsung folks have the same mindset as Nokia people. Honestly it is sickening.

My opinion of what the best mobile phone on the market is (Nokia E90) can be totally different from your opinion and that is totally cool. Technology is an amazing thing and we should all be able to enjoy whatever brand or device we feel like without it getting in the way of our behavior as decent human beings.

Just because you’re hiding behind an online alias doesn’t give you the right to act like a total fucktard; remember that.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

Xellar

Are they down again? Were back just for an hour…
Skyline

wow, how lame. Way to make Apple fans look bad. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t appreciate this kind of poor sportsmanship.
Mobilelifer

Really is a shame but not unexpected really is it? I am not being a fanboi about anything but every Apple fan I have ever met has been so anal about the brand that they get so upset when you even attempt to question the Big Jobs.

So they didn’t like a review? fine comment on it and then either forget about it and enjoy your handset or just don’t bother with the site again? DDOS is so 1990′s I didn’t realise people still bothered with silly games like that.
Xellar

Oh boy. It was back for about 15 minutes. Why are people so plain dumb?
JonnyBruha

Imagine how many sites would have gone down if all the Nokia fans shut down the negative reviews of the N95?

I’ve never seen a group so sensitive to criticism. If the iPhone is so great, why does it need defending? Why do things like this happen? To prove a point? “Our iPhones suck, but we’ll make up for it by shutting down any website that says otherwise”?
Aleksander

That’s disgusting……….. just because they think it’s great, doesn’t mean that everyone else has to think it’s great

that wasn’t even his review, it was an overview of the iPhone, trying to decide what it actually was, turns out Apple fanboys don’t like it when their devices are labeled “fashionable” (because that’s the only thing Apple devices are….)
Alexandr3

Well this is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

I thought Apple iPhone buyers or “supporters” were grown ups not just a bunch of spoiled kids that get upset if someone tells them that the only great thing about the uber-expensive phone they bought is the UI…
Toby

Suprised the offending apple lover could do something that contained the word DOS in it… surely he is a sinner!!! heh heh… (let alone an outstanding user, unless he has some kinda gui DDOS heh)

Well I love mobile-review also and just want to say the in-depth reviews are so useful, even if you disagree with the authors sometimes… like i did before i upgraded from my k750i to w880i… and im still happy i did it :¬) i didnt need to attack the site in anyway as i disagreed…

maybe its a point to note these mongoloids have too much time on their hands to go messing other peoples opinions or sites… o no .. we should all conform to 1 view… the APPLE view yes yes… we are assimilated from your DDOS!!! _/-0_

F***** idiots lol… go suck some apple c***

I needed to get that off my chest
jo

RSEQ#$#”$”#%$#$!” retards.
grow up kiddos
iphone is so crappy you can’t even set custom ringtones
sent files via bluetooth or anything.
PlayerKill

Oh god… Now I hate Apple fanboys even more.

Apple fanboys are really irritating. They praise any product Steve Jobs announce, even though the product may not have that much of an improvement (iPod with brighter screen -_-”). They find Microsoft, Sony, Nokia, or any other company that is in a competition with Apple, supremely inferior. They bash these competing products and act as if they know the best.

My god, most Apple fanboys don’t know jack. They’re the most ignorant fools you can find on the internet. Also, they believe any product that comes out in pure white is a copy of Apple.

I want these Apple fanboys gotten rid of from the Internet… -_-”

Sorry to all those Apple fans who do not fit the above description, I did not mean to attack all Apple fans, just the type mentioned.
Tobeng

I love my mac and i love my S60 phones and people who cant keep an open mind drive me nuts… My iPhone status is slowly falling from neutral to bleh Have yet to try i out thou
fergus

relax, people

How come Mr.Murtazin know for sure that it is “rabid Apple zealots” how attacked his wonderful web site? Isn’t it logical to get proof first and only then to blame someone? To me it seems like attempt to use iPhone media hype to promote his own business, cheap trick for sure!
donniesd

Truth hurts. Deal with it crapintosh fans.
jo

cuz he got an email saying they will.
fergus

to viteks.lv:

in the top post there is quote of Mr.Murtazin:

“P.S. Never think that Apple fans could be SO aggressive”

- sounds to me as he is blaming Apple fans after all.

the fact that some kid send ISQ with treats is not proving anything. whoever attacked Mr.Murtazin web site is skillful and techy person and any fanatics are just not fit into that category – especially if this kind of action requires very good knowledge of WINDOWS systems, not Mac
india_mob

WTF!!…..

Get a life….fkin fanboys!!
DrLaunch

>…this kind of action requires very good knowledge
>of WINDOWS systems, not Mac

This kind of attack doesn’t require much knowledge of Windows systems.

All you need is a bunch of angry fanboys with computers, an Internet connection and simple instructions from the head geek.

It can be done from the command line interface of most computers. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux has a command line interface capable of doing this.

Denial of Service (DOS) attacks are some of the simplest attacks there are. And when a bunch of angry fanboys do it, it’s a distributed attack.

What I’m saying could be wrong. Correct me if it is, someone.
fergus

DrLaunch,

I think you don’t understand what dos attack is.
According to Mr.Murtazin himself: “Several tens of thousands of computers across the globe are supporting the attack – these are “infected” terminals, or, as they call it, bot-nets”

It certainly could not be done by bunch of unskilled “angry fanboys”, because it is not like something required ten monkeys sitting in front of ten computers hitting something in “command-line terminal” every 2 seconds (and it is good, because otherwise internet would be dead flooded by thousands of such attacks every day).

It is well known that it is much easier to “infect” Windows machine because of many known vulnarabilities and bugs in the Windows system, leavin along the fact that 9 of 10 desktop computers on Earth is PC. Please read any publication about dos attacks and see it yourself.

Anyway, my point was that Mr.Murtazin is blaming Apple fans without any sufficient proof (do you really think angry anonymous icq message is proving something?)

P.S. Actually, today Mr.Murtazin published statement where it says “we regard this incident as an attempt to impose censorship in the Internet” – this guy is really trying to make hero of himself!
fergus

it make me sad to see how easily people jumping on the “hate them” bandwagon
Kadeem

Fuck the iphone fanboys ,i never liked that pice of shit does i’m a nokia fan(HTC,sony,samsung and hell even motorola have been and will also be makin better phones than that iphone.
Unregistered

I think the iPhone and Apple fans have been made a scapegoat and smokescreen. Why should MR of all sites be targetted when MR is not the only site to give the iPhone their thumbs down?

People should just use their brains instead of perpetuating by copy+paste the accusatory “Mobile-Review is down due to rabid Apple zealots” when the truth isn’t out yet? If they were so rabid, they’d have done the same to Apple’s competitiors, Microsoft, LG, Nokia, SE, Samsung etc? *rolls eyes*

Guilty till proven innocent, what age are we living in?
Steven

@ Unregistered

Because mobile-review is the leading website in telephone reviews? That’s why it’s the most interesting target for agressors.

You have to admit that a lot of the Appel fanboy’s are just more fanatic.

PS: sorry for my bad english, it’s not my first language.
DrLaunch

Fergus: Well. Command line based DDoS attacks are cerainly possible. I did it together with a few other people who were pissed on a virus spreading bot on IRC.

I think the same could be possible if you gather enough monkey… ehrm Apple fanboys to attack a website.
Shiva

Hi,
mobile-review is not only a best web portal providing expert reviews, their reviews are a balanced one. I find them extremely useful.I love MAC, i own a MACBOOK. It doesn’t mean i am more fanatic about its product.

In developing countries, if a magazine brings to light about any offensive actions to the view of public, they get their Office building shattered on the very next day. Atleast, in your case people have not gone to that extent.

Hey Muzartin don’t loose hope, You can have a fresh beginning. After this struggle your site is getting more popular as well as a status that your reviews are Unbiased.

Fix it Quick Buddy

Shiva
Alex

Truth hurts. Deal with it crapintosh fans.
nataliy

interesno pochitat’ o krisise