Such attacks harm the Internet for little if any gain. And they're illegal. So please, no matter how hated the target, no matter how deserving the retribution, please, lets not descend to this level ourselves. Freepers should be above this. Thank you.
This type of stuff I've been dealing with the past couple days. Just thought I'd share.
Call For Action Against Free Republic
by cb 2:25am Wed Mar 26 '03 (Modified on 10:13am Thu Mar 27 '03)The Free Republic has been using up Indy resources by spamming us with prowar anti-protester spewage.
This is a call to give the freepers a taste of what they've been giving for years.
Here's the plan:
Pick a name you have never used before. Go to yahoo or hotmail and create a new email address for that name. Using an anonymizer (or not), such as
http://www.anonymizer.com
or
http://www.guardster.com
join the forum at http://www.freerepublic.com
Wait a few days and just observe. This weekend, begin posting antibush and antiwar material. No doubt they will try to censor it, but this will overload them they way they overload us.
Spread this idea to all imc's
http://www.dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59753&group=webcast
Again, please, lets not descend to such stone throwing ourselves. If you wanna stay cool with me, just remember who has to ultimately deal with their retribution for our retribution against their attack. That would be Jim, our overworked and unpaid moderator staff, and myself. And I have a feeling we'll all be putting in some overtime as the left becomes more marginalized in the near future.
Basically, it allows one to participate in a distributed denial of service-- that being, a large number of individuals, or rather computers, co-ordinated to surf to a website simultaneously. The goal is to overload or crash the website, hence denial of service.
AntiMafia is a Windows based program for the co-ordination of associative actions.
The user interface allows for the creation of social events based upon the co-operation of other peer computers operating AntiMafia.
Communication between AntiMafia programs is effected via the Gnutella protocol, implemented according to the latest version of the specification published on the Internet, together with the L.O.V.E. (Last Option Versus Enterprises) protocol for management of synchronisation.
Visit the WarTools page to flood media search pages with words they are ignoring. Search requests are logged and analyzed. This is valuable data for assessing public response and it definitely gets their attention. WarTools will search news and other sites for you so you can see what they are reporting, or not. It will also let you repeat a search request up to 100 times every minute. Just leave the window open <grin>.
(Emphasis mine.)
Show your "support" for corporate media by continuously monitoring their websites for anti-war coverage. See them get all excited as their hit counts soar. They'll be so pleased (if their servers can keep up) and so will you, knowing you are doing your patriotic share to "help" the war effort and show your loyalty by always being there for them.
Web attack on the Whitehouse
by nobody in particular 10:05am Fri Mar 21 '03 (Modified on 12:19am Mon Mar 24 '03)
Help bring down the Whitehouse website this weekend
Download attached file: XXXXXXXXXXX
While you're out protesting, your computer is sitting on its fat arse doing nothing against the war.
Not anymore :-)
Attached is a zip file containing a webpage which attempts to shutdown the Whitehouse website.
Real simple to use, just unzip, open and click GO.
Piece of piss!
It will then open 12 smaller window each containing a page from the whitehouse website. It will cycle through the pages and ovrrload their server. If enough of us do this it will SHUTDOWN THE WHITEHOUSE !
TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST TO DOWNLOAD IT AND RUN IT ALL WEEKEND.
La pàgina principal del mitjà de comunicació escollit recarregarà cada 10 segons en un frame ocult. Mentre deixis la finestra oberta, estaràs mostrant el teu continu "suport" als grans grups mediàtics en el seu seguiment de la guerra. Si tens una connexió prou ràpida, pots fins i tot mostrar el teu 'interés' per més d'un mitjà de comunicació, obrint aquesta pàgina en diverses finestres.
10 Downing Street Web site attacked in antiwar protest
By Gillian Law, IDG News Service, 03/25/03
Antiwar protestors closed down the U.K. government's 10 Downing Street Web site for a short period over the weekend.
http://alberta.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/6306_comment.php
(Emphasis mine.)
Click on the link listed below, and LEAVE YOUR WINDOW OPEN ALL DAY. The page will automatically reload every 10 secs, thereby overwhelming their site and hopefully shutting it down if enough people participate. You can continue browsing on line, but leave the CNN window open. Spread the word.
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/3451.php
Download a copy of this webpage (address above) to your computer, unzip it, and click on index.htm to bring it up in your browser (you must be on line). No installation is required - it's an ordinary web page. This nice little gizmo will automatically do a search on CNN (or the White House and other sites) for "anti-war protest" and will repeat it every ten seconds.This may not seem like much, but 3000 people with this page open in just one window would give them a million page views per hour.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3288
Web Sites Vandalized With Antiwar Messages
By Brian Krebs, Washington Post Mar 20 2003 2:57PM
A hacker group marred hundreds of Web sites with digital graffiti last night in an apparent response to the onset of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, prompting security experts to warn of further cyberattacks in the days to come.
Unix Security Guards, a pro-Islamic hacking group, defaced nearly 400 Web sites Wednesday evening with antiwar slogans written in Arabic and English, according to iDefense, a Reston, Va.-based Internet security firm.