Saturday, 12 January 2013

Online petition seeks to make DDoS 'legal form of protesting'

An online petition to make distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks a legalized form of free speech has been created on the whitehouse.gov website.

The creator of the petition believes DDoS is "not any form of hacking in any way" and is a legitimate form of protest with the advance of the Internet.

"It is the equivalent of repeatedly hitting the refresh button on a webpage. It is, in that way, no different than any 'occupy' protest," the petition reads.

"Instead of a group of people standing outside a building to occupy the area, they are having their computer occupy a website to slow (or deny) service of that particular website for a short time."

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Source: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/446234/us_petition_seeks_make_ddos_legal_form_protesting_/

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