OAS (USA) and the Chihuahuan government - August 2002

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DATE:
2002-08

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA, Mexico

AFFECTED SITES:
Organization of American States (oas.org) in Washington, DC and the government of Chihuahua (chihuahua.gob.mx)

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Organized in NY

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Electronic Disturbance Theater, Women in Black Art Project (latter in sponsorship only)

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Voluntary DDoS organized by Electronic Civil Disobedience/Electronic Disturbance Theater and utilizing the Flood Net software.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Protest for "women murdered in Ciudad Juarez" to raise awareness that "nearly 800 women [have] been murdered or 'disappeared' in and around Ciudad Juarez, State of Chihuahua, Mexico over the past decade."

URLS:
1. http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/JuarezAction2003/Call.html

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