Line2 By Toktumi Is Getting Bombed

I read about Line2 — an app that provides a second phone number and VOIP service to iPhone — in the New York Times the other day. Apparently, others read about it too. I have downloaded and installed it, and it seems to work as advertised, although I haven’t tried some features yet.

Apparently, someone is doing a denial-of-service attack via their sign-up process:

via email

Dear Toktumi Subscriber,

As some of you may be aware, Toktumi has been the recipient of some very positive publicity this week in the popular press.  The New York Times, CNBC, and others have extolled the virtues of Toktumi and in particular of Line2 for the iPhone, the latest version of our application for the wildly successful Apple smartphone.   While all publicity is nominally good, the attention that these notices has attracted has not all been to our benefit.  Now that we are on the international radar screen, certain entities have been using automated systems to try to create toktumi accounts at the rate of tens of thousands per hour.  Obviously our systems were not designed to handle this, and our servers have gotten severely bogged down trying to process all these requests.  We have temporarily stopped all new Line2 sign-ups as a result until we can identify and eliminate the source of the automated sign-up system.

Toktumi’s number 1 goal is to provide top-quality service to all of our customers.  We are working around the clock to rectify this situation.  We apologize for any inconvenience this situation may cause you.

Thanks,
Peter Sisson
CEO