Note that this is a document from 28 years ago, not a current movement.
Basically, these were people who were experimenting with DDoS for political change.
Basically, these were people who were experimenting with DDoS for political change.
In regards to TFA, the story of the Mexican Government's countermeasures is quite neat. Using the poor control of pop-up windows to making using the flooding computer somewhere between extremely annoying and impractical to use is clever.
If only present-day webmasters could do something so simple to disrupt the DDoS bots run in service of the LLM Industry...
And from what I've heard, getting "clever" causes the bots to get even more aggressive. Either you feed them junk and pay the money for the massive amounts of wasted CPU and bandwidth, [0] or cut off your site from a great many -but not all!- bots and many humans by blocking traffic from fairly huge chunks of the Internet.
[0] ...and -depending on how little CPU and bandwidth you can pay for- maybe end up with a site that's largely useless for humans...