title: The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
author:  Molly Sauter 
description: Questions about online protest tactics have never been more fraught--as the analog police militarize their response to legitimate dissent, so, too, have the Internet cops decided that any online protest is cyber-terrorism. Sauter's work places one of the most urgent political questions of the 21st century into much-needed context.--Cory Doctorow, EFF Fellow and co-editor of Boing Boing<br /><br />Do two wrongs ever make a right? Sauter deftly shows how the injustices of our asymmetrical media landscape motivate and in some ways justify illegal online attacks. How much collateral damage to the network, if any, is ethical when lives are at stake in the real world? And how does public perception of hackers both inhibit and enhance the effectiveness of their efforts? While there may be no easy answers, "The Coming Swarm" is a landmark contribution to a conversation that needs to be initiated right now.--Douglas Rushkoff, author, Present Shock and Program or Be Programmed<br /><br />While DDOS actions have only recently entered the public consciousness, they have a vibrant history in the realm of political activism. Drawing on disciplines from political philosophy to social movement theory, Molly Sauter illuminates the importance of DDOS actions to modern democratic discourse, and contextualizes them in the evolution of political activism as it has moved from the streets to their elusive online counterparts.--Jonathan Zittrain, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law Library and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society<br /><br />The Internet has increasingly attracted passionate citizens who engage in disruptive acts of direct action to voice dissent. Erudite in its analysis and written with grace and style, "The Coming Swarm" is the definitive account on the DDoS campaign. Sauter's compact book covers vast ground to advance a compelling argument: the political use of DDoS merits recognition as civil disobedience. She deftly considers the tactic's history, the technological and cultural changes underwriting its contemporary manifestation, and the laws seeking to stamp out its existence. Theoretically informed and empirically rich her book is essential reading to understand the veritable explosion of online dissent today and why, given multiple threats, its future stands in peril.--Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University<br /><br />The Internet is changing the nature of civil disobedience. Molly Sauter's book is an interesting and important discussion of political denial-of-service attacks: what has come before, and what's likely to come in the future.--Bruce Schneier, Author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive and Schneier on Security<br /><br />In "The Coming Swarm," Molly Sauter provides deep historical and philosophical context to online "denial of service" attacks, examining the participants' motivations and their portrayals in the media, whether as terrorist, hacker, artist, or nuisance.--Clay Shirky, Associate Professor, NYU, author of Here Comes Everybody
zlib_text: Theoretical and Experimental 
  Methods for Defending Against 
  DDoS Attacks
  Mohammad Reza Khalifeh Soltanian
  Iraj Sadegh Amiri
  University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  Matthew Neely, Technical Editor
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