From: "Mark R. Jacobson" <jacobson.11@osu.edu>
I know most of us are looking towards Europe but I heard two BBC reports
this evening that might be of interest. The first was on a "cyber sit-in"
organized in the U.S. and directed at the Mexican (and I think US)
governments. Apparently a few pro-Zapatista, cyber-saavy students are now
using a software called, "flood-net" to help them with their operations.
I apologize if this is "old-news" to some of you. The purpose of this
particular protest was to create a "virtual sit-in." The protesters
sought to overload the "servers" and public web-pages of certain
organizations, though I can imagine some other applications. I am not sure
if they were successful, annoying, or both. Stefan Wray, the a New York
University student who organized the protest said of his campaign, "we
urge multiple actions, virtual and real, on multiple levels, aimed at
multiple targets, from multiple sources."
Mark
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Received on Wed Oct 14 08:18:49 1998