Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 10, 2013 @12:41PM from the let-us-break-stuff dept.

hypnosec writes "Anonymous has filed a petition with the U.S. Government asking the Obama administration to make Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a legal form of protest. Anonymous has argued that because of advancements in internet technology, there is a need for new ways of protest. The hacking collective doesn't consider DDoS as a form of attack and equates it to hitting the 'refresh' button on a webpage. Comparing these attacks to the 'occupy' protests, Anonymous notes that instead of people occupying an area, it is their computers occupying a website for a particular period of time."

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Re:Mannequin Attack by schizz69 · 2013-01-10 13:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We could always build an army of protesting robots to do it for us. They would be able to chant and wave pickets for as long as their charge lasts, while we can still go to work and earn our 1%
Re:Mannequin Attack by wierd_w · 2013-01-10 16:31 · Score: 1, Offtopic

*pedant
The CORRECT adjective is "ferrous"