Not for me, I'm not getting any response from it.

Been down most of the day for me, as well as a bunch of related domains. Canonical's status page has them linked

Loads for me, but not particularly quickly

dead here

Not loading for me right now.

It's loading, but very slowly.

Canonical is a UK company, so its a symbolic attack against a Western agent. Ubuntu is used by a lot of tech companies so they knew this attack would get a lot of visibility in the tech community. I'm assuming they think this will garner support from the tech community as well.

You should have seen so many lies about Iran by now to justify the neocolonial war against them: so why do you assume every time some newly reported "fact" about them to be true? Rather, you should assume the opposite.

Almost certainly a target of opportunity. The UK has really made a point of staying out of this fight, but is also seen as a close ally of the US. Perhaps the calculus is:

- Iran was able to attack Ubuntu.com

- Iran sees it in its interests to stress the UK / US relationship (albeit in a small way)

It's a well(ish) known org with well known product. If they had attacked a deli in Newark, would we be having this conversation?

Bluesky and mastodon both strike me as easy targets, they expose protocol level integration points that are probably reasonably expensive to serve and reasonably difficult to detect malicious actors on and/or throttle without significantly degrading the service.

I could see low budget attackers deciding that they were the most (not very much) bang for the (also not very much) buck that they could get...

Ubuntu.com doesn't fit that narrative though. I would have thought canonical would have the servers and skill to weather quite a large attack (on the other hand it did go down...)

Maybe they're still mad about systemd.

> I do not understand the connection between Linux and the US/Israel. You'd think Iran would be very pro-Linux since Windows is a very obvious liability for them

Canonical is a British company and the employees are westerners.