Re: Help destroy eToys.com! (fwd)

[Matt Murphy <murphdog@nycap.rr.com>]

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And with that said Bronc, I'd like to be the first to condemn all the script
kiddies that are probably doing this.  Because, if "real old school hackers"
were to do something like that (not that they would have any reason too.)
I'm sure that they would get the job done -right- the first time.

-Murph


-----Original Message-----
From: Bronc Buster <bronc@2600.com>
To: hacktivism@tao.ca <hacktivism@tao.ca>
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: Help destroy eToys.com! (fwd)


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>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2408451,00.html
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>A protest group calling for the destruction of online toy seller eToys
>said it already has a group of hackers working on ways to interfere with
>site traffic counts and the toy seller's server operations.
>
>In a press release sent out Dec. 12, RTMark, a group describing itself as
>a "machine to improve its shareholders' culture and life - sometimes to
>the detriment of corporate wealth - put out a call to Internet users to
>"destroy" eToys by joining in a series of "sabotage" projects intended to
>lower the company's stock market value as "quickly as possible."
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>---- SNIP< ----
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>
>Ya this story really sounds like a ploy to bring attention to this cause.
>Is there anyone  who can't read english and see what this story is saying?
>This is one of the WORSE, unthought out, immature, moronic plans I can
>remember in rcient history. All you are doing is helping continue the
>sterotype of hackers as bad evil people bent on destruction. Gee thanks!
>
>Not only that, but you are helping people to get the wrong impression as
>to what hacktivism is. "If we don't get our way, we are going to destroy
>your business and web site". Ya, that's real smart. It doesn't really
>matter what your intentions are, because the message you are convaying is
>this one, and it's very clear.
>
>I can't see how anyone on this list can support this type of irresponsibe
>action.
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>I hope eToys does sue RTmark. This has nothing to do with bringing
>attention to a cause, this looks more like revenge. And by RTmarks words,
>it sounds more like revenge as well.
>
>It's not our job to punish, but to inform.
>
>
>regards,
>   Bronc Buster
>  bronc@2600.com
>
>
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