The Roots of Social Action

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The Roots of Social Action

• Welcome back to Web 1.0

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Who Am I?

• And what am I doing here? lt/Stockdalegt
• Social Media is NOT new know yr history!

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Zapatistas

• Traditional political struggle
• Language used "network of struggle", "network of
  resistance
• hactivism led to the Electronic Disturbance
  Theatre (EDT)

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Floodnet

• DDOS client by Brett Stalbaum and Carmin Karasic
• Conceptualized as art
• publishing tool empower user to write to the
  server log
• FloodNet is able to upload messages to server
  error logs by intentionally asking for a
  non-existent url. This causes the server to
  return messages like human_rights not found on
  this server.

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Floodnet vs. Mexico

• April 10, 1998
• floodnetting Mexican President Zedillos web
  site.
• Java applet which hit "reload" every 7 secs-
  that's all

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Floodnet vs. USA

• May 10, 1998
• floodnet attacks every 3 secs
• White House doesnt go down.

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Floodnet vs. Mexico Rematch

• June 10, 1998
• Countermeasures Java script opens window upon
  window in the attackers computer, crashing the
  browser.

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Floodnet vs. Pentagon

• September 9, 1998
• First domestic cyber counter-offensive (that we
  know of)
• Pre-announced by the EDT
• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
  developd counter-measures, defeated the attack.

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Foreshadowing Web 2.0

• hacker figure goes from loner (think War
  Games to a community)
• Floodnet Distributes SOCIALLY, not
  technologically
• bloggerjournaling floodnetDDOS attacks