Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest

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."

Comments

Re:Mannequin Attack

[horusofoz]

I think I could agree that hitting refresh over and over again on a website would be a valid form of protest. But wouldn't having a program do it for you be like using mannequins to occupy wallstreet?

I would say it is little different from the Koch brothers busing in a bunch of uninformed societal dregs to protest issues they know nothing about or right wing "think tanks" such as "American Crossroads" bank rolling Tea Party groups with pre-determined objectives and calling it grass roots organising.

Re:No

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I work for a small hosting/cloud provider...

And that is where I stopped reading. What you really mean is your company resells shared hosting on virtual servers...

Re:Mannequin Attack

[Andy Prough]

... or smoke pot ... or have sex in (or out of) tents ... or steal stuff ... or litter ... or develop intense body odor ...

Re:Mannequin Attack

[Sentrion]

If the Republican Party can hijack America's Christian churches to brainwash middle and low income people to support policies that work to their own detriment and go against the teachings of their own scriptures, why can't Anonymous hijack the computers of the middle and low income church-goers who willfully and knowingly download dozens of viruses, worms, and Trojans every time they visit their favorite porn sites?

They passively consent to handing over control of their brains to others, and they passively consent to handing control of their computers over to others (they never read the EULA or the TOS). Sounds like a balance of power to me. Except in both cases only the interests of the PRC will prevail.

Re:Mannequin Attack

[magic maverick]

I wanted to mod you funny, but you're already +5. That's a funny funny story (and not at all insightful or informative.)

You either have no clue, or are just spreading agitprop (or conceivably both).