DDoS: From Activist Event to Perpetual Crisis

This paper focuses on recent changes in the way Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are technically administered in order to reassess their role as an activist tactic. By contextualising current forms of attacks within the history of hacktivism, it is possible to discern a shift from DDoS a...

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Autor principal:	Theo Röhle
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst 2021
Materias:	Language and Literature P Communication. Mass media P87-96
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:65cc587a16234aac84894d582150e16d2021-11-17T15:42:12ZDDoS: From Activist Event to Perpetual Crisis10.7275/40mc-td212380-6109https://doaj.org/article/65cc587a16234aac84894d582150e16d2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol8/iss1/5/https://doaj.org/toc/2380-6109This paper focuses on recent changes in the way Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are technically administered in order to reassess their role as an activist tactic. By contextualising current forms of attacks within the history of hacktivism, it is possible to discern a shift from DDoS as short-lived event to an enduring phenomenon. The paper discusses the implications of this temporal shift, in terms of a growing reliance on DDoS protection providers and increasingly opaque traffic flows that are managed by these new intermediaries. This discussion then extends towards infrastructure studies in order to question established notions about the relationship between breakdown and visibility. The paper concludes by calling for a stronger engagement with different temporal aspects of recurring communication crises in general and DDoS attacks in particular.Theo RöhleScholarWorks @ UMass AmherstarticleLanguage and LiteraturePCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96ENcommunication +1, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2021)
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description	This paper focuses on recent changes in the way Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are technically administered in order to reassess their role as an activist tactic. By contextualising current forms of attacks within the history of hacktivism, it is possible to discern a shift from DDoS as short-lived event to an enduring phenomenon. The paper discusses the implications of this temporal shift, in terms of a growing reliance on DDoS protection providers and increasingly opaque traffic flows that are managed by these new intermediaries. This discussion then extends towards infrastructure studies in order to question established notions about the relationship between breakdown and visibility. The paper concludes by calling for a stronger engagement with different temporal aspects of recurring communication crises in general and DDoS attacks in particular.
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title_short	DDoS: From Activist Event to Perpetual Crisis
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DDoS: From Activist Event to Perpetual Crisis

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