Anonymous Strikes Again!

Anonymous created a petition that declares to have DDoS become a form of protest.  It needs 25,000 signatures to get a response from the Whitehorse   DDoS is short for distributed denial of service and it is when a huge amount of people flood a server by refreshing the website constantly.  It is very simple yet very destructive.  The petition also asked for anyone that has been jailed for DDoS to be released and record removed.  This petition is asking for big things that are hard to undo but I would assume that's why it has come to the white house's decision.

This petition will cause lots of activity both neutral and violent.  The problem with this petition is protesting by bringing down an official government's website is not right but that seems to be one of the few ways to get the attention of a government so that's why people are doing it.  A good reason is that this kind of protesting no one will get hurt or killed.  I think that people should not DDoS websites because it is a form of violating their property.  When society brings down a goverment website everyone is surpporting it but lets say the goverment raids your house and burn it down and say it is the right thing to do it wouldn't make sense.  Some people need to understand both point of views.  The problem with DDoS it's so easy to do a group of people that is arrogant and stubborn they can take down the government online.

*Anonymous's mascot is based on this mask which was based off Guy Fawkes who blew up the British parliament ages ago.

Jauregui, Andres. "Anonymous DDoS Petition: Group Calls On White House To Recognize Distributed Denial Of Service As Protest." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 12 Jan. 2013. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.