Hackers Take Aim at Republicans

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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Re:Chicago 1968 and Seattle 1999 again....

[kmankmankman2001]

"There are some differences between what the Swift Boat Veterans and what the radical Left are wanting to do, though. First of all, the Swift Boat vets are NOT advocating acts of civil disobedience bordering of violence (and probably crossing that border, too) that some of the radical Left are advocating. Remember what happened in 1968 and 1999 when a small group of anarchists turned what was supposed to be peaceful protest into violent confrontations with the police and causing quite a lot of property damage?" Yeah, nothing says FREEDOM like shooting unarmed students at Kent State, urk, I mean, ummm, Tiananmen Square.