Cyberprotest of CNN called off (for now)

Late Friday, leaders of the Revenge of the Flame called off a planned denial-of-service attack on CNN.com, according to The Dark Vistor, a Web site that follows Chinese computer hacker activity.

"Our original plan for 19 April has been canceled because too many people are aware of it, and the situation is chaotic," cyberprotest organizers said in a statement. "At an unspecified date in the near future, we will launch the attack. We ask that everyone remain ready."

However, early Saturday morning, a post on The Dark Vistor contained detailed plans for various Revenge of the Flame participants, as though the attack were continuing.

The original deadline of 8 p.m. Beijing time, 5 a.m. PT, passed without incident.

CNN reported on Friday that it had suffered some outages in Asia on Thursday. This appears to coincide with information from Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks.

[Dead Soulman]

And China is our friend and partner, right. ..

If this is not cyber terrorism, then I'm lost.
And then we have politicians, the president included, telling us over and over that China is our friend and partner. ****. I can guarantee you the Chinese government's hands are involved here. What do it take for people to wake the f--k up? Oh, yeah, I forgot, China is our partner and ally. My bad.

[david__B]

what happened to "net neutrality"?

Here's a good reason why net neutrality will never work.

Ask CNN how they like being put out of business because a bunch of people flood thier sites keeping everyone out are crashing the site.

There's nothing illegal about this, it's not "cyber terrorism" if you go by the ideal that ISPs should be REQUIRED by law to pass all traffic NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.

[limefan913]

*sigh*

Net neutrality is to prevent discrimination of protocols and legal sites. It has nothing to do with law enforcement. You're completely off the mark. Congrats.