[IMC-bristol] DDos

[sam rossiter]

I'm against it personally-
It would bring us under the terrorism act 2000 which
is a little too heavy for my liking.
sam
--- ian i-contact <ian@videonetwork.org> wrote:
> Bristol indymedia got sent a link for a DDos site - 
> http://www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/iraq/primary.html
> 
> There seems to be a debate going on about the
> legitimacy of this kind of 
> on-line protest. . It has legal implications for
> indymedia and wether it 
> could be sued for advocating this. hmmm
> 
> cheers
> ian
> 
> 
> Definition:
> Distributed Denial of Service
> Refers to DoS (Denial of Service) - an acronym for
> the disruption that 
> results from an attack on a network. Hackers execute
> a DoS with the intent 
> of blocking individuals' ability to access Web sites
> or e-mail. The most 
> common form of DoS results from an attacker who
> sends so many messages to a 
> Web site that it can't respond to regular users or
> it shuts down completely 
> (see: broadcast storm). DoS is a criminal act, even
> if done as a prank; 
> major attacks are aggressively investigated by the
> U.S. Department of Justice.
> DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service," an
> attack in which a 
> multitude of compromised systems attack a single
> target, thereby causing a 
> DoS for users of the targeted system. The flood of
> incoming messages to the 
> target system essentially forces it to shut down,
> thereby denying service 
> to legitimate users.
> 
> 
> This is all the stuff from the last days advocating
> a DDoS:
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60182&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60183&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60143&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60012&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59977&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59944&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59787&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59763&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59739&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59736&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59548&group=webcast
>
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59427&group=webcast
> 
> 


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