World Economic Forum - January 2002

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DATE:
2002-01

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Switzerland, USA

AFFECTED SITES:
weforum.org

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
site temporarily down

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Organized in NY

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Electronic Disturbance Theater

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

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

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Protesting the meeting at which people will "plan the continued erosion of human rights, environmental standards, sustainable development, and social justice, all in the name of ever-greater corporate profit margins." (1)

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

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