Moonbat Hackers Plan Sabotage

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Who needs Al Qaeda to attack America, when we’ve got radical fascists like the Electronic Disturbance Theater living right here among us: Hackers Take Aim at GOP. (Hat tip: Dave Ray.)

The point of the electronic demonstrations isn’t to take down a site, according to Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, or EDT, which is releasing a FloodNet program of its own. Unlike hackers’ denial-of-service attacks, which often hijack computers against their users’ will, EDT’s JavaScript-based software depends on how many people use the program. “It’s a way to let people around the world gather and let their presence be felt,” Dominguez said.

Not that he would mind if a Republican server just happened to crash along the way. In 2002, at the EDT’s direction, 43,000 people flooded the site of the World Economic Forum during its meeting in New York. The organization’s website went offline for several hours following the demonstration.

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.”

Officials from the Republican Party and from Computer Horizons, the Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, firm responsible for network services at the GOP convention, did not respond to requests to comment for this article.

It’s unclear exactly how effective these online actions will be. In an interview, CrimethInc boasted that his associates defaced the website for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, with a pro-pot-legalization screed, and promised similar strikes against Republican sites. In the past, veteran online activists have called these tactics the “kind of stupidity that gives hacking a bad name.”

The attacks during the Republican convention may be just the beginning, however. At the Hackers on Planet Earth gathering in New York City, one speaker promised attendees, “You will learn how to infiltrate organizations like the RNC, how to look for and find security holes, and how mischief and mayhem is achieved.”

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