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| #1 Posted on 17.8.04 1151.41 Reposted on: 17.8.11 1152.54 | The latest in a long line of people trying to take down the GOP
Originally posted by Noah Shachtman on Wired Online protests targeting GOP websites could turn out to be more than symbolic during this month's Republican National Convention, possibly blocking a critical communications tool for the party.
In the past, activists have been able to shut down the website of, say, the World Economic Forum for a few hours. But the impact of such a takedown was nebulous at best: It's hard to argue the organization really suffered from a few-hour lag in posting its press releases online.....
...."We want to bombard (the Republican sites) with so much traffic that nobody can get in," said CrimethInc, a member of the so-called Black Hat Hackers Bloc. It's one of several groups planning to distribute software tools to reload Republican sites over and over again. These FloodNet programs are similar to hackers' distributed denial-of-service attacks, which overwhelm a server with thousands and thousands of simultaneous requests for information.
But some activists are condemning the planned attacks, saying they violate the principles of free speech that protesters rely on for their demonstrations.
"If you feel that you must shut up someone through intimidation or false accusations or any other method -- you are not relying on the superiority of the truth," The Pull, co-founder of the online political action group Hacktivismo, wrote in an e-mail. "People can not condemn censorship and then embrace it."
I'm not sure if all of that mumbo jumbo is legal or not, however, I tend to believe that this is not:
Originally posted by the article The attacks during the Republican convention may be just the beginning, however. At the Hackers on Planet Earth gathering in New York City, one speaker promised attendees, "You will learn how to infiltrate organizations like the RNC, how to look for and find security holes, and how mischief and mayhem is achieved."
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| #2 Posted on 17.8.04 1315.06 Reposted on: 17.8.11 1315.44 | Originally posted by Grimis As usual, a new breed of nutjobs bringing a new level of discourse to the political spectrum...
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| #3 Posted on 17.8.04 2001.24 Reposted on: 17.8.11 2001.39 | Originally posted by Grimis I'm not sure if all of that mumbo jumbo is legal or not
I would think that orchestrating a DoS attack would be illegal, but depending on how they go about, if enough protesters access the servers simulatanously, I don't think that's illegal. Its one thing to write malware; its another to use people. Think what used to happen to 411 and 1Wrestling during PPV's: everyone would access the sites and it would shut down, and that isn't the fault of a virus or special software. If that specifically can be prosecuted, then /. is in trouble. | ALL ORIGINAL POSTS IN THIS THREAD ARE NOW AVAILABLE |
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