Harvard Study: DDoS is a weapon as a threat to freedom of expression
Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Berkman Center for Internet and Society) recently published a site subjected to independent media and human rights, denial of service attack (DDoS) reports that this year from last September to 8 months, a total of 280 sites by the 140 attacks.
Berkman Center surveyed the majority of independent media or human rights websites hostile stand with the government's position, but did not have clear evidence that the government agencies involved in related attacks, the report says Ethan Zuckerman, co-author, research shows to It is easy to silence speech, but protected expression is relatively difficult.
This year from Panda Labs, a security researcher Sean-Paul Correll had forecast, denial of service attack will become the future network of demonstration tools to protest against all acts or speech site.
Zuckerman pointed out that the survey found that DDoS attacks are used to independent media and human rights in general form of the site, and the number of attacks have not slowed down, however, DDoS attacks are just one way these sites, hacker attacks are related through other means website. For many organizations, DDoS may cause long-term can not access the site, because most of them are the lack of experienced system administrators, and the lack of ISP industry and technical community for assistance.
Berkman Center for WikiLeaks delay the occurrence of the incident published in the report, Zuckerman said that the report had recommended that these organizations can be moved to site platform for the sharing of resources, because they shared a platform with more resources to resist DDoS, some large ISP industry can be solved within one hour of service attack blocking, but research shows that independent media and human rights sites for the attack could lead to these sites shut down for several weeks or even longer.