This is disturbing. Let me go on record, before anythkng like this should happen, and I hope they (the GOP) are taking measures to avoid it.
In the name of what we stand for, free, unfettered, responsible speech, don’t give any ammunition to the secretive, manipulative, gustapo tactics of the Radical right idealogues. Let them talk. Their leaders won’t be listening anyway. They have no clue about participatory democracy. Let them have their websites up and running, where their supporters can talk freely. The Bush administration won’t be listening, and therefore benefitting from something they have no clue about : Conversation, Democracy, and caring what OTHERS think.
Wired News: Hackers Take Aim at GOP
Online protests targeting GOP websites could turn out to be more than symbolic during this month’s Republican National Convention, possibly blocking a critical communications tool for the party.
“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
This is a lame hack attack anyway. Any hacker worth his salt would know that georgewbush.com is running IIS and gop.com is running an old version of IIS. There are more than enough ways to take advantage of unpatched vulnerabilities. The creative hacker would make the GOP and Bush sites praise another candidate and tell bad things about Bush. But vandalism’s not really a Christian thing to do.