<nettime> URLs for the May 10 White House Flood Net action are Active

[ricardo dominguez <rdom@thing.net>]

[Please note: (1) This announcement was sent to nettime *after* the 
 event was scheduled to start. (2) The explanations of how it works
 are given in ways that range from awkward to a bit misleading. The 
 nyu.edu URL claims that when you connect to a Flood Net URL "Flood
 Net will 'ping' the White House web site every 4 seconds." It does
 *not* "ping" the site--that is, send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets--it
 loads a Java applet in your (frames+Java-capable) browser, and the
 applet sends bogus HTTP requests to www.whitehouse.gov, every 3 or
 7 seconds (the dox are inconsistent); explanations of how it works 
 are available through the Flood Net pages themselves--after the ap-
 plet has launched a "denial of services attack" via your browser's
 window, which will run until you close the window. If this kind of
 "electronic disturbance" will become a technique of civil disobedi-
 ence, then organizers *must* explain their methods--and the risks-- 
 *before* enlisting people to act. When they don't, they are asking
 people to act out of naivete--well-meaning ignorance--and that's a
 technique of *disinformation*. The Flood Net pages have some inter-
 esting material; you may want to turn Java off in your browser, or
 read it with a Java-free browser, while you decide whether you are
 going to participate in this action.-T]
 


Folks,

The following URLs for the May 10 White House Flood Net action are now
active. They have been linked to the "How to Flood the White House" page
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/May10how.html

Please spread these URLs.


     http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/zaps.html

     http://www.contrast.org/zapsTactical/zaps.html

     http://cadre.sjsu.edu/beestal/zapsTactical/zaps.html

     http://www.duke.edu/~arg2/~zapsTactical/zaps.html

     http://www.best.com/~gadget/zapsTactical/zaps.html

Happy Mothers Day!
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