[ga] Hacking and democracy

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 14:35 9/10/00 +0200, Olivier Guillard wrote:

>For a web page, this is different because it's
>expected that the server is available in real time *everywhere*. The
>problem is that on the other side, this is not an SMTP server that is
>waiting, but a human ( oops a citizen :)
>

Asia @large Candidate Dr Chiang reports this to the idno-discuss list:
"You know it is now in Taiwan Alarm Degree 1 while the 
hackers from the mainland have announced they will begin to attack all the 
net servers in Taiwan since 21:00 tonight for tomorrow is the national 
festival of ROC."

How easy would it be to sabotage a web-based event such as an (ICANN)
election, when no network of mirror-sites is in place?



--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  
the Cyberspace Association and 
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org  

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