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You support Denial of Service attacks
DENIAL OF SERVICE attacks are an acceptable form of civil disobedience for more than half of The INQUIRER's readers, according to our poll.
With around 2,000 votes cast in The INQUIRER's poll on so-called hacktivists, the action taken by the hacker collective Anonymous is broadly supported by our readers, with 63 per cent in favour.
With Anonymous expected to take further action if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is extradited to Sweden to face sex crime allegations, the DDoS attacks can only increase. Hackers are said to be preparing improved DDoS attack software to make more people capable of carrying out such actions with less risk of getting caught.
Of those that responded to the poll, 51 per cent said it was an acceptable form of civil disobedience and a further 12 per cent saw it as acceptable but potentially as counter productive as a violent student protest. Only 14 per cent thought it should be a crime, while 6 per cent saw such actions as futile.
Most surprising of all was that almost one in five of responders thought such civil disobedience would make no difference because the world is ruled by a secret Illuminati cabal. Perhaps half of respondents would have chosen that option if the cabal had not been described as secret? µ
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Are you serious? Of course they work. They work on every front:
The make Global News, embarrassing and makes the government look out of control.
They make the people feel powerful and the government look out of touch and out of control and incompetent.
Picking on ordinary people's kids and leaving them with £30,000 - £50,000 debts is going to get everyone's backs up. The people will support the protest, well the people definitely not support the government.
When all the other "pay the bankers some money" measures kick in over 2012-2013 there will be even more trouble on the streets.
With a bit of luck it will force Nick Clegg to resign and the libdems will be wrecked. The Libdems are at 10% in the polls.
THE REAL QUESTION IS THIS?
Why aren't the banks bailing each other out AND paying back the debts with their profits over the next 10-20 years?
Why not ask pirates if they think piracy is a proper means of protests? You're in denial Rob.
You use a select group of people many of whom are renegades, to promote your baseless beliefs. Ask the general public in a real poll if they condone illegal DoS, piracy, etc. and you get a much different answer than from a small group of people with questionable ethics.
Nice try. The saying is you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you're in deep denial if you believe you own conclusions.
All thanks to your rigged polls
Of course the entire world is ruled by secret power groups, that's how so many common folk know about them, because they're secretly running things, get it?
After all, the more secret and illusive these master puppeteers are, the more likely Joe Public would know they exist. Makes perfect sense.
The majority of people think they are smarter than average.
/facepalm
Obviously this blog is a niche not representative of the greater population. Civil disobedience, by definition, does not do damage to others and is public rather than clandestine.
In the US such attacks carry long prison sentences and hefty fines because they do cost the owners. In the case of the owners of the computers infected by a distributed denial of service, that reaches five figures in costs quickly. A 23 year old in Bellevue, Ohio will have 30 months in prison and several years on parole to contemplate the damage done to his university and Bill O'Reilly's site.
Is participating in a denial of service attack in the US illegal? I saw that something like 25% of this software's downloads came from teh US. I would imagine that is a fast track to a short list of being branded a troublemaker by the out of control and overpowerful US government.
I'm one of those who voted for the cabal.... but it's actually not that secret. Nor all that new: Lao Tze described how the masses should be kept ignorant of the "state" business. And he wrote more than 2000 years ago.
A great Brit, Mr. Orwell, gave us another insight on how people can be kept at bay. It's the always old three-card trick: keep the subject's attention focused on something else, while you skillfully "shuffle" the cards to your sole advantage.
But hey, I'm just an old fart from a futile country....
Even is these attacks won't make Paypal and other revert their position, at least the next time a company is confronted with the same choice, would be more likely to chose a different route.
@paul A bit like how the governments are approaching freedom for the people and human rights you mean.
...until it interferes with something they want to do, like accessing their own bank account or buying their latest hardware or getting some services from the government they so revile...