Ethan Zuckerman has an excellent post about the new Berkman report on the use of Distributed Denial of Service attacks to silence human rights groups

Here’s an abbreviation of Ethan’s summary of the “take-aways”:

• DDoS is a pretty common form of attack against human rights and independent media sites, and the volume of attacks does not appear to be slowing.

• DDoS doesn’t usually affect independent media and human rights organizations in isolation.

• Attacks don’t need massive amounts of bandwidth to adversely affect sites.

• For many organizations, DDoS can be a crippling attack, making sites inaccessible for long periods of time..

• We see no silver bullets for the independent media and human rights community.

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