Hola Gregory,
b.a.n.g lab is hosting a VR Sit-In (NOT A DOS - a DOS works/a VR Sit-In is symbolic and does not work) on the French Prime Minister's sites in solidarity with the Univesity Students, Unions and large segment of French Civil Society.
This project was intiated by my border hacklab group as a way to understand the methods and history of Electronic Civil Disobedience that I have been developing as a practice since the mid-80's.
http://bang.calit2.net//affiliates/hacklab.html
The VR Sit-In ended on the 18th.
I do think it is important the CAL IT2 understand the nature of my research - which I believe they do - since that is one of the reasons I was asked to
develop the bang.lab project.
Would be more than happy to sit down and look at the research with you to develop a diagram of my ECD research in the years to come.
Best,
Dr. Dominguez
> Dr. Dominguez,
> Would you please respond concerning this query from the French CSIRT about bang.calit2.net participating in a denial of service attack against French Prime Minister sites? In response the campus is blocking
external access to and from bang.calit2.net.
>
> Regards,
> Greg Hidley, CIO Calit2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Madden [mailto:jmadden@ucsd.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: dhutches@ucsd.edu; Hidley, Gregory; soenet@soe.ucsd.edu
> Cc: noc@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Fwd: DDOS against sites of the French Prime Minister
>
> >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:01:54 +0100
> >From: Matthieu SAUSSAY
> >Organization: CERTA
> >To: brian@ucsd.edu
> >Cc: NOC@ucsd.edu
> >Subject: DDOS against sites of the French Prime Minister
> >Resent-From: brian@ucsd.edu
> >Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:48:12 -0800
> >Resent-To: abuse@ucsd.edu
> >Dear administrators of UCSD,
> >
> >The CERTA (French CSIRT equivalent to the CERT-CC in US :
> >http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr) has been reported that a web page hosted at your university is currently participating in a DDOS against some web sites of the French Prime Minister.
> >
According to the whois query we performed (see above), it seems that this page is hosted by
> >UCSD-1 :
> >http://bang.calit2.net/sdhacklab/france_solidarity/basta.htm
> >(132.239.8.103)
> >
> >This page contains several automatically reloading frames which overload some servers here.
Could you please remove this page as soon as possible?
> >
> >I look forward to hearing from you soon.
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> >The CERTA Team.
> >
> >--
> >Matthieu SAUSSAY
> >SGDN - DCSSI - Sous-direction opérations - CERTA 51, boulevard de la
> >Tour-Maubourg 75700 Paris 07 SP Tel : +33(0)1 71 75 84 25 Fax :
> >+33(0)1 71 75 84 00 Mél : matthieu.saussay@certa.ssi.gouv.fr
VR Sit-in
Dear Comrade Doctor:
If street protest and traditional civil disobedience are, as CAE have claimed, no longer effective how come the protests in France seem to be getting some results while EDT has simply had their service cut off by some geek in the university IT department? Ah, yes, the fight for employment has been relocated from the streets of Paris to the war zone known as the SoCal militaryedutainment complex where it belongs.
murph