I Dislike the GOP As Much As Anyone But...
by Joe?Pulcinella
...when self-styled anarchists decide who will be allowed to speak and who will not, I have to come down on the side of free spech whether or not I agree with the message. Wired reports that malicious hacker groups (Wired is so kind to call the "electronic activists") are planning criminal activity to disrupt the GOP convention.
"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. These FloodNet programs are similar to hackers' distributed denial-of-service attacks, which overwhelm a server with thousands and thousands of simultaneous requests for information.
Sorry, but when you confound?and impinge on my right to speak with amlicious intent, you have violated my rights as a citizen or a political party mega-machine. But wait! If you act now, you'll also get...
The Black Hat Hackers Bloc is hoping to cause a whole lot more trouble when the Republicans start to gather in New York. The groups will be targeting not only GOP computers, but "e-mail, faxes and phones, too," CrimethInc said, as well as unspecified "financial disruption."
Blah, blah, blah. I'd bet a paycheck that a few credit cards of innocent bystanders may find themselves among the colateral damage. Then they'll cry, "Free Kevin Mitnick!" again when they're caught buying new computers with absconded indentities.
