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Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets
schliz writes "Hacker group 'Anonymous' is organising international, real-life protests of the Australian mandatory internet filter this coming Saturday. Protests will take place in major Australian cities as well as at Australian embassies around the world. The protests are said to be the second stage of 'Operation Titstorm,' which unleashed a prolonged DDoS attack on Australian government websites last week. Organisers of the so-called Project Freeweb said: 'If passed, this legislation will set a disturbing precedent at an international level. The public, not the Government, should have the right to decide what is deemed appropriate for you or your family to be exposed to.'"
Their ad brings even more negative attention to poor ol' IRC...
So, I became curious when I read about this DDOS on the Australian websites. I wondered: how hard would it be to write a simple, DDOS tool? Something that didn't require anything fancy, that anybody could do without installing anything special?
So, I wrote something, and tested it on my own local webserver. Surprisingly, it took me less than 10 minutes to write a simple javascript webpage with iframes that generated in excess of a million hits an hour in about 20 lines of HTML + javascript, armed with nothing more than a browser and notepad. I didn't even have to host it; the file was saved locally on my HDD!
The method was simple: a webpage with a bunch of iframes that sourced the target, and a javascript onload that refreshed the page. How could it get any simpler? My conclusion? A DDOS attack is the digital equivalent of peasants throwing rocks. Anybody can do it. It requires nothing. It's still a rather effective form of attack!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Being an Australian I can tell you most Australians are apathetic to this issue and there likely won't be a huge turn-out. There probably won't be anything but fleeting mass media coverage, and that means politicians will ignore it and side with the "think of the children" majority who have no idea of the underlying implications.
If there was an upcoming election the issue *might* hit the media if the opposition declared a policy of no filtering and hightlighted all the negative aspects. But given the previous liberal government floated around similar ideas I wouldn't hold my breath on that, I think the position of both the major political parties is unfortunately much the same.
I'd rather they didn't make the decision either.
Yes, indeed! Let's dry out any kind of outlet for those freaks! Once they wont be able to get off from something besides the real deal, they are bound to stop and suddenly turn into normal, heterosexual human beings.
Right? Right?!
Or so we are told by their state media...
I'm Russian. At least with respect to my country, the state media is correct on this particular issue (even if they're a lying bastards on most other matters).
Elections are rigged, true, but only to get higher percent of the vote - the people in power don't need it to get elected. They do want high percent for the president to get more legitimacy (as Putin told regarding his opposition once, "over 70% of voted for me, so they're opposing the clear mandate of the people"), and they want 2/3 of the parliament to be able to amend the constitution freely (like they did not long ago extending the presidential term from 4 years to 6). In practice, with fair elections, they'd probably get somewhere around 55%-60%, but the true support base is higher - it's just that opposition is more politically active, and thus more likely to bother to vote.
I have little reason to believe that it's any different in China, especially judging by the stance of Chinese hailing from PRC whom I've met. If anything, their brainwashing seems to be much more effective than ours.
For Iran, all you need to know is that death penalty for homosexuals is mandated by Shari'a. Any country that deems itself Islamic will have that implemented.