[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Choate) writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ricardo dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 6:17 PM
> Subject: Econ Forum Site Goes Down
>
>
> > Econ Forum Site Goes Down
> > By Noah Shachtman
> >
> > 1:35 p.m. Jan. 31, 2002 PST
> >
> > NEW YORK -- The website of the World Economic Forum crashed from an
> > apparent denial-of-service attack Thursday, just as the collection
> > of business and corporate leaders began its meeting here. Internet
> > demonstrators may have been the cause of the collapse.
> >
> > Encouraged by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), RTMark,
> > Federation of Random Action, and other groups, online activists
> > have been downloading software tools that continuously reload the
> > websites of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and of a few of its
> > corporate members.
> >
> > The protest --- called a "virtual sit-in" by organizers -- began
> > Thursday morning to coincide with the start of the WEF's meeting.
> >
> > By 10 a.m., the WEF website was offline. EDT co-founder Ricardo
> > Dominguez is not yet taking credit for the shutdown.
> >
> > "EDT does not know if this sit-in against the WEF is the reason for
> > the site going offline. (We) don't even have the numbers of online
> > protesters right now," he said in an e-mail. Those numbers would be
> > available by midnight, Dominguez added.
> >
> > WEF spokesman Charles McClain confirmed that the group's "site is
> > down. We don't know when it'll be back up," he said. "We're getting
> > hits like we've never had before."
> >
> > "We've been putting up the plenary sessions on the site, and that
> > usually brings high traffic," McClain continued. "But whether it's
> > because of that, or because someone hacked the site or crashed the
> > site, we don't know yet."
> >
> > Electronic Disturbance Theater has been spearheading these sit-ins
> > for several years now, including ones against the President of
> > Mexico and the Pentagon. But the group "has never attempted
> > or wanted a site to go off-line. Our actions are not about
> > technological force, they are about symbolic mass presence. The
> > unbearable weight of human beings online disturbing the movement of
> > virtual power."
> >
> > Other websites targeted by the current sit-in, including those of
> > Goldman Sachs and Investcorp, are still up and running.
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50159,00.html
