This performative “messaging”įunctionality would appear in Anonymous’ LOIC tool. On this server.” Such a message could be found by a systems administrator later. Rights” would generate a “404_file not found” message in the server's logs: “human_rights not found FloodNet could send requests for specific files to the targeted server.

Often from a drop-down menu, and allowed the tool to run in the background. Participants navigated to a specific webpage that hosted the tool, selected certain parameters, Later versions were able to increase the request load to once Tool, these reload requests were triggered every 7 seconds. Reload of webpages or sections of webpages from the targeted server several times a minute. Written in Java, the tool exploited something called the “applet reload function,” with the tool requesting a The Electronic Disturbance Theater and FloodNetįloodNet was developed in 1998 by EDT members Carmin Karasic and Brett Stalbaum, with Stalbaum as the primary developer and Karasic handling the interface design and testing. The design and affordances of the tool used can defineĪ variety of aspects of the actions, including the level of engagement expected from participants, as well as indicating,Īfter the fact, the types of individuals who were recruited and active, and the amount of political “seriousness” Rather than looking at them on a purely technological level, this chapter examines these tools in the context of activistĪctions and communities, at how their existence impacts campaigns. This chapter takes the technological tools used during these actions as a base for the analysis of these actions. The previous chapter was an attempt to address DDoS actions at the level of social movement

Give clues as to the lineage of the tool and the specific development of the groups using it. Used can show not only the targeted user group for the tool (and thus the intended participants for the action), but can also Such as tutorial videos and how-tos, as well as scheduling and recruitment documentation. In complex of language, memes, and references used in the interface design of these tools and their paratextual materials, In this chapter, I trace the development of the EDT's FloodNet and the Anonymous’ family Individuals, and actions, the successive versions of these tools act as a connective string of influence, as the technologicalĪffordances, design assumptions, specific functionalities, and interface choices impact each new action that uses them. Through being adopted and adapted by other groups, Influence of these tools past the initial actions they were developed for. LOIC were able to progressively adapt these tools for the needs of any given action. Released open source, other groups in the case of FloodNet and participants within the Anonymous collective in the case of Though there have been several different tools usedĭuring these actions, some ad hoc, some more polished, the two most notable tools for activist DDoS actions have been theĮDT's FloodNet tool, and Anonymous’ LOIC. Use one tool or one of a family of tools recommended by the organizers. The first level of community, literally serving as the collective launch point for the action. In activist DDoS actions, the tool used sets 109LOIC will tear us apart: DDoS tool development and

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