Jeez, how unkewl. How stupid.

If you really wanted to let out a call for hactivism for such an event, why not do it quietly, covertly...with stealth? Why EVEN TRY to involve others for that matter, when there are thousands of backdoored open systems out there?

No, instead make a public spectacle of yourself at a convention filled with feds. Be loud and obnoxious about it. Talk about criminal activity publically, in an open amplified forum.

Yeah, that's the way to do things. lol Jeez.
Maybe it was just a test. Maybe someone wanted to collect stats on how many hardcore republicans were at defcon. A testing of the waters, if you will.

So silly.

] But CrimeThinc continued to ask attendees to deface the
] Republican National Committee Web sites, to launch denial
] of service attacks against their servers, to harass
] delegates in the street, to prevent buses carrying
] delegates from running, and so on. "By any means
] necessary," he said.

This is not hacking, this isn't protesting, this is anarchy, and these jackasses deserve the brutality they get.
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These are those people you just wish would get the hell off your side.

[ Hear hear. I'm all for activism, but this childish crap only diminishes the validity of the progressive left in this country. I disagree with the Republicans about as much as it's possible to, and as such i'm not about to give them reasons to discredit my standpoint.

I like the quote from the Defcon guy who had to handle the situation :
"We got the call for trouble in the room. The gentleman, I was told, was preaching sedition. I knew that we had to take some steps quickly preventing that. Defcon is definitely for free speech, definitely for legal civil disobedience. But not anarchy, not psychopathic destruction of property." -k]

CrimeThinc @ Defcon: Cause chaos at the RNC