A "netstrike" officially is when activists, usually upset at a particular for-profit company, sit in front of their computers, load the target's webpage, and click reload repeatedly in hopes of overloading it. Unofficially, some quick wget or Perl coding on the part of the activists might speed up the overload process. Indymedia article: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=58481&group=webcast Background on Genoa from Politech archives: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=genoa -Declan ******** From: "robert" <ihbat_private> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:32:30 +0200 Subject: Fw: (en) [movimento] comunication netsrike.it NETSTRIKE.IT SITE SEIZED In 1995 we invented a new form of network protest: netstrike. In spite of the name, (that sounded good anyway), it is the networked version of a peaceful sit-in. The metaphor that best represents it is that of a number of people that walk on pedestrian crossings with signs and banners, if their number is really big they can stop traffic for a noticeable period of time. The first target for a netstrike were the sites of french government that in that period was conducting nuclear tests on Mururoa atoll. Since that time an infinite series of netstrikes were launched, in some case we promoted those, in many other by initiative of people all around the world. Six years passed and notwithstanding the diligent attention from the so called forces of order, no attorney, no matter how zealous, had ever dreamed of accusing someone for this protest practice that has an exclusively symbolic and demonstrative value. TODAY ON THE LONG WAVE OF THE GENOA DAYS WITH THEIR CHARGE OF REPRESSION AND DEATH PERPETRATED BY POLICE THE NETSTRIKE.IT SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED AND REMOVED FROM THE NET BY BOLOGNA POLICE OFFICE ON REQUEST BY POSTAL POLICE OF GENOA. The seizure is in fact originating from one of the eigth investigations by magistrature on the events in Genoa, even if at the moment we are not given to know the name of the attorney that signed the seizure order. WE INVITE EVERYBODY TO SPREAD THIS COMUNIQUE AND WE ASK ANYBODY THAT HAS THE MEANS TO MIRROR NETSTRIKE.IT SITE BOTH IN ITALY AND ABROAD, SEND MAIL TO netstrikeat_private MAILING LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO SUPPORT US. netstrike.it working group ******** Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:25:46 +0200 From: nicholas <saloxinat_private> Subject: netstrike mirrored at http://www.contrast.org/netstrike netstrike.it is now mirrored at http://www.contrast.org/netstrike There was quite a lot of discussion internally on contrast.org about hosting netstrike. They provide a howto for manual ddos attacks, in a social framework. We at contrast.org do not approve of ddos attacks. But netstrike was taken offline by italian police. It deserves it place on the web. It is mirrored across the world, and on contrast. The beginnings of an english version: http://www.contrast.org/netstrike/index_en.html We will try to open a discussion forum for this site and related issues. In the mean time you can read their press release on http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=58481&group=webcast grts nicholas -- gpgkey: lynx -dump http://squat.net/ascii/info/saloxin.asc | gpg --import fingerprint F430 B1B9 2558 9C04 6C81 C236 FEBC E458 4730 23D9 ******** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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