the website of radio free sarawak as well as their podcast from itunes has been inaccessible since 9 april 2011 due to unknown reasons. the inaccessibility of the website coincides with the campaigning period of the bitterly contested 2011 sarawak elections and may be a distributed denial of service attack. nonetheless, the station continued their daily one-hour broadcast on shortwave from 1000 utc - 1100 utc. radio free sarawak's sister site, "sarawak report" has also been subject to a massive cyber attack although effort is being made to get both the websites back into operation. the founder, clare rewcastle-brown, has commented that the attacks are "a full admission by bn that our insights and investigations have been causing them major difficulties".