TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sauter,Molly
TI  - The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
SN  - 9781628921533
AV  - HM851 .S2375 2014eb
U1  - 302.23/1302.231 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Internet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Denial of service attacks
KW  - Hacktivism
KW  - Civil disobedience
KW  - Cyberspace
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Attaques par saturation
KW  - Désobéissance civile
KW  - Cyberespace
KW  - Public administration
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Political subversion
KW  - Media studies
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politik
KW  - Gewaltloser Widerstand
KW  - DoS-Attacke
KW  - Politischer Protest
KW  - Sociology & Social History
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social Change
KW  - politiska aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Civil olydnad
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Title Page; Additional Praise for the Coming Swarm; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by ETHAN ZUCKERMAN ; Introduction: Searching for the digital street; The structure of this work; Technical note; Legal note; Notes; Chapter 1 DDoS and Civil Disobedience in historical context; Silence and disruption in the time of constant comment; "Full and free discussion even of ideas we hate"; Notes; Chapter 2 Blockades and blockages: DDoS as direct action; Functional metaphors of geography and physicality; Shouting down your opponent: The censorship critique; The Euskal Herria Journal and the IGCThe "Deportation class" action; Notes; Chapter 3 Which way to the #press channel? DDoS as media manipulation; Terrorist, hacker, artist, nuisance: The many media reflections of the EDT; Allies in the toywar; Anonymous and the media: Manipulation, entertainment, and readymades; Shadows in the monitor:The CAE's symbolic dissent critique; What does winning look like?; Notes; Chapter 4 Show me what an activist looks like: DDoS as a method of biographical impact; The culture of the Hive; Anonymous' hacker identity; Notes; Chapter 5 Identity, anonymity, and responsibility: DDoS and the personalDDoS and impure dissent; Identity, anonymity, and responsibility within protest; Accessibility in technologically defined tactical spaces; Notes; Chapter 6 LOIC will tear us apart: DDoS tool development and design; The Electronic Disturbance Theater and FloodNet; Anonymous, Operation Payback and LOIC; A forked comparison: abatishchev and NewEraCracker; Changes in the technology; Notes; Chapter 7 Against the man: State and corporate responses to DDoS actions; Terrorism accusations and the CFAA; GCHQ's rolling thunder and the (re)militarization of the internetThe internet as melded commercial/military space; The avatar nature of online brand presence; Notes; Conclusion: The future of DDoS; Note; Index; Biographies; Foreword by
N2  - What is Hacktivism? In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted activist tools-petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns and others-find equivalent practices in the online space
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