Posted on 08/17/2004 1:10:02 PM PDT by Bill Hobbs
Wired.com reports that computer hackers are aiming to disrupt Republican websites during the Republican National Convention.
Hardened electronic activists are planning to jam up the servers of GeorgeWBush.com, GOP.com and related websites, once the Republican National Convention gets underway Aug. 29.
"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.
Funny, I don't recall any stories about evil conservatives trying to hack and shut down Democrat websites during the Democratic National Convention. Huh. Maybe there were such attacks but the media decided to ignore them.
It gets worse...
According to Wired, some of these left-wing hacker thugs plan to targeted not only GOP computers, but email, faxes and phones - and to commit acts of unspecified "financial disruption."
Committing crimes in the pursuit of a political objective isn't free speech, or "protesting" or "activism"
It is terrorism.
I am a security professional who specializes in network security. I am more than willing to volunteer my time and have a detailed conversation with the GOP webmasters on actions they can perform to prevent such a disruption.
"Hardened electronic activists" my aching foot. They're just a bunch of anklebiters and scriptkiddies who are doing nothing more than planning a digital temper tantrum. Phooey.
Between John Kerry and George Bush, which one will look bad if a bunch of leftist idiots disrupt the convention?
Between John Kerry and George Bush, which one will look bad if a bunch of hoodlum leftist protestors start a riot outside Madison Square Garden?
Between John Kerry and George Bush, which one will suffer if it is found that some of the "protest" groups attempting to cause serious trouble had links to al-qaeda?
Chicago '68 did in Humphrey more than anything else. The public saw live on national television what the left was capable of starting and was disgusted. Southern conservative Democrats (many of whom were veterans) switched their support to Nixon and Wallace. That cost Humphrey the election.
Mayor Daley didn't HHH any good, either. I was living in Arlington Heights suburb at the time, and remember seeing busloads of disruptors coming in from all over the place.
Isn't a denial of service attack against the law?
What a bunch of whiney crybabies.
Probably enough federal laws conspiring to be broken to put a man in prison for the rest of his life.
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