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Richard Stallman: Anonymous Attacks neither Hacking nor Cracking nor DDoSing but Mass Demos

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Velvet Elvis12/17/2010 7:01:31 pm PST

I said it wasn’t a DDoS but multiple DOSes when it first happened. a DDOS does require a botnet.

I’m not sure if I’d put it in the same category as in the streets political demonstrations though. For one thing that would make it political speech and therefore grant it some some form of constitutional protection. I’m a pretty hardcore civil libertarian but that’s getting a bit too wacky for me.

A stream of random data aimed at an open port isn’t speech. That’s like arguing that drowning out a public speaker by surrounding him with flatbed trucks full of speakers and amps blaring white noise is speech. That’s not speech. It has no message other than to try and silence someone else.