Saturday, December 18, 2010

Are the Cyber Battles with the Enemies of WikiLeaks the New Civil Disobedience?

From Alternet.


Are distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks a legitimate and effective form of protest?

December 13, 2010 |


The WikiLeaks controversy has opened up one of the most complicated intersections of politics and the Internet that we’ve seen in a while. One particularly interesting development has been the launch of attacks against companies and politicians perceived to be foes of WikiLeaks, by a loose group of online activists called Anonymous.

At the Personal Democracy Forum’s symposium on Wikileaks over the weekend, organizer and blogger Noel Hidalgo put forth an idea that divided the room pretty quickly: that the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are a legitimate form of civil disobedience...

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