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  • Hackers Aim To Disrupt GOP Convention

    08/17/2004 1:10:02 PM PDT · by Bill Hobbs · 9 replies · 462+ views
    HobbsOnline (a blog) ^ | August 17, 2004 | Bill Hobbs
    Wired.com reports that computer hackers are aiming to disrupt Republican websites during the Republican National Convention. Hardened electronic activists are planning to jam up the servers of GeorgeWBush.com, GOP.com and related websites, once the Republican National Convention gets underway Aug. 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. It's one of several groups planning to distribute software tools to reload Republican sites over and over again. These FloodNet programs are similar to hackers' distributed denial-of-service attacks, which overwhelm a server...