We are far more vunerable to DDoS attacks than the owners of CNN, AOL/Time Warner, we cannot afford the bandwidth that they have, to win a DDoS war the one with the most bandwidth wins.

If you don't know what a Distributed Denial of Service attack is try this Google:

 http://www.google.com/search?q=DDoS

Chris, when you say "We are far more vunerable to DDoS attacks" I assume you mean Indymedia. Yes Indymedia is more vunerable but I don't think it is likely to get hit. It takes a fair amount of people to gets a DDoS together and I'm not convinced that the pro-war people have the co-ordination or the know how.


There are massive amounts of people anti-war and co-ordinated, I have yet to see a popular pro-war site with the same kind of determination and diversity that the anti-war groups have.

There has been a debate on the global tech list in the last couple of weeks about activist spam (can't link to it now since the global mailman box is down) and the comclusion, correct IMHO, was that basically spam is spam and activists should get blocked for spamming the same as everybody else.

I think the same thing applies to DDoS attacks -- a DDoS is a DDoS for whatever reasons it is being done.

Sorry, not even close to convincing me to quit it mate.
The implied similarity to spam is (in my opinion) totally irrelevant.
DDoS scripts are still a valid form of protest.
It works. It stops them spreading propaganda for a while.
I don't have a problem with that.

All's fair in Love and War? Right?
DDoS on!!!! If we can't be heard, if OUR rights are stripped, what choice is left, to lay down and die? I don't think so.
I'll see you in the streets again and won't stop untill Amerika stops it's Konservative Kristian Koalition mentality.

Lost in Amerika,

Whabbit

Of course DDoS is a bad idea, it can have side effects such as bringing down innocent websites along with the intended victim site.

Nothing will ever excuse a DDoS, it's not valid protest, it's just a childish waste of the resources of the internet.

What are you doing to stop the war? I got off my arse, went to Menwith and even got arrested, costing the government time and money. I stood up to be counted, and I plan to continue to do so as vocally as possible until the government stops this slaughter. I didn't hide behind my PC and DoS a website, the only thing we'll achieve that way is to make protestors look like the same childish fools that DoS indiscriminately and spread virii all the time.

my £0.02 worth :)