I commend these groups of individuals for taking the initiative to band together for a global cause. If you think about it rationally, this would be one of the first, or perhaps, the first publicised protest in the virtual world of online communications.
I too concur that anyone thinking this will have little to no effect, should start thinking about eating those words. A gigantic proportion of people worldwide are connected to the internet constantly. Governments, particularly communication and information departments, rely solely on this resource for a great degree of their daily activities. Imagine if the US President could not communicate with the entire east coast? It may be laughable but the fact remains that a simple DDoS attack in conjuction with a well programmed script could easily achieve this within a period of hours, and easily evade discovery for hours more.
I must confess, that I have implimented such DDoS & Self-Spreading attacks in a secure lab. The inability of OS dependant Virus scanners, "Lazy software", and "Unaware" users in conjuction with basic everyday security being overlooked could result in a catastrophe of global proportions, seeing eveything computer or "information-exchanging" dependant fail, and continually fail.
Koodos to the groups responsible, you should be commended, not ridiculed.
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