Re: Remote support for Iranian protestors making it harder them to reach the outside world?

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Nick FitzGerald<nick () virus-l demon co uk>
wrote:

> robert_mcmillan () idg com wrote:
>
> > b) DOSing people is a dumb way of arguing for democracy/free
> > speech/etc...
>
> And your evidence that the incoming (from Iran's perspective) DDoSes
> are being perpetrated by "anti-establishment" (presumably the more pro-
> democracy/more liberal, free-speechers/etc) folk is?

No evidence needed.

Whomever is perpetrating any DoS attacks is completely unjustified, in my
opinion, due to the unintended consequences -- and there's a lot of them.

Collateral damage is only one.

The bottom line is that when people take up "digital arms" in the form of
DoS attacks, everyone loses.

- - ferg

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