Hackers Plan to Jam Republican Websites
Posted on Tue Aug 17, 2004 at 08:48:25 AM EST
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Noah Shachtman at Wired News and Defense Tech reports on plans by activists to hack Republican websites during the convention:
So it's no surprise that hardened electronic activists are planning to jam up the servers of georgewbush.com, rnc.org, and related websites, once the Republican National Convention gets underway on August 29. "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.
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."
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