Das Berkman Center hat einen neuen Report über DDos-Angriffe auf unabhängige Medien und Menschenrechts-Webseiten (in meist autoritären Regimen), an dem Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York und John Palfrey mitgearbeitet haben. Hier ist das PDF.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. In this paper, we explore the specific phenomenon of DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, their efficacy, and the responses available to sites under attack. Our report offers advice to independent media and human rights sites likely to be targeted by DDoS but comes to the uncomfortable conclusion that there is no easy solution to these attacks for many of these sites, particularly for attacks that exhaust network bandwidth.
Hier gibt es eine Linkliste mit Medienquellen zum Thema als XLS.
Aber war DDoS nicht ein harmloses und faires Protestmittel, so wie eine Sitzblockade? ;)