Schatz, Wyden Urge FCC to Prepare for Possible DDoS Attack Amid Wednesday Net Neutrality Protest
Senate Communications Subcommittee ranking member Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are jointly urging the FCC to ensure its systems are ready for the planned Wednesday protest against a rollback of 2015 net neutrality rules. The Fight for…
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the Future-led protest, which Amazon, Mozilla and others back, aims to include the filings of thousands of comments in opposition to a May NPRM that examines the 2015 rules and reclassification of broadband as a Communications Act Title II service (see 1706060056). Schatz and Wyden noted their past criticism of the FCC’s response to a May incident that the agency says was caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack against the electronic comment filing system application program interface (see 1705090063 and 1706280044). A similar cyberattack might occur amid the Wednesday protest, which is concerning because the FCC’s response to the May attack “was an unacceptable mistake that left Americans disenfranchised from your comment process,” the senators said in a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released Monday. “We encourage you to seek out and employ ECFS measures that allow for flexible scalability and alternative methods of filing.” Schatz and Wyden also said the agency should take “temporary measures to ensure a functioning system” during the anticipated comments surge. The commission didn’t comment.