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Hackers Take Aim at Republicans

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-surprise-I-guess dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired reports-- 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... "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."

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  1. Drain GOP coffers--order free propaganda DVD! by Cryofan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want to make the Republican National Committee spend money needlessly, and deplete their supply of propaganda, just order one of their propaganda DVDs HERE

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  2. PS...It's Free to you, but costs the GOP $$$ by Cryofan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    help yourself!

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    eat shiat and bark at the moon
  3. Re:This is being done by Republican-SUPPORTERS, ri by essreenim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Meanwhile, these "hacktivist" morons manage to be complete failures on both political and technical counts.
    Sounds like the little green man to me"
    You yourself are an idiot
    It takes one to know one!!
    You sir are an i****.

  4. If I was american... by hsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I was american, I would probably prefer a war criminal to a deserter. (and liar)

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  5. Re:This is being done by Republican-SUPPORTERS, ri by Aardpig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ask Argentina

    Indeed. The irony is that Argentina's debts, when the World Bank shat on them, were far less severe than the USA's. The USA is the most indebted nation on the planet.

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  6. Re:What options are left? by Morpeth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Fox News balanced ?!?! OMFG you can't be serious, O'Reilly - yeah telling guests to repeatedly 'shut up' when they disagree with you, that's balanced journalism, uh huh...

    If the media was a liberal as you claim, they'd have taken Bush, Rice, Rumsfield to task on their blatant lies and misdirections regarding Iraq, instead of tossing them softball questions so they keep getting invited to WH press events.

    Go read "Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq" by Rep. H Waxman (I think it's still at www.reform.house.gov/min) and you can have documented evidence of the Bush admin's bs - the 'liberal' media should've had a hayday with that, but they didn't b/c they're not NEARLY as liberal as you claim.

    "At least W puts terrorists in cages" Oh really, yeah illegally holding people for 2+ years in Guantanamo with no lawyers, charges, trials - guilty until proven innocent. That's the kind of government and leadership I want... great...

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  7. Money and Politics by toddhisattva · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Why do political parties need money? To pay for television advertising. Why do they need television advertising? Because people do what the television tells them to.

    This is the problem, people do what the television tells them. Who raises the money, who gives the money, why, how, and so on are the merest minutiae compared to the real problem. The average voter is a moron who can be swayed by 30 seconds of TV.

    Which party controls the educational agenda that produces these morons? Which party has dumbed down the population in order to create people stupid enough to vote for them? Which party enjoys the chauvinistic fealty of the NEA? Which party controls the colleges?

    It ain't the Libertarians. It ain't the Republicans. Inarguably, the Guilty Party is the Democrat Party. They've created millions of Dummycrats!