For a very interesting treatment of the conditions of war in the internet age you might read Phil Agre's essay "Imagining the Next War: Infrastructural Warfare and the Conditions of Democracy." It is written 14 September 2001. A short excerpt: "The danger of "total war" against the spectre named Osama bin Laden, then, is that it will reinforce the worst tendencies in our society, and that far from preserving the conditions of democracy it will undermine the cultural and institutional foundations upon which democracy rests. It will be war without end, without boundaries, without even a coherent conception of itself save as the expression of an impulse to vengeance." http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2001/RRE.Imagining.the.Next.W.html Best, Charlie
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Frank Thomas Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:51 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Denial of Service attack against al Jazeera
According to the German newsservice de. internet.com Ayman Arrashid, systems administrator of Horizons Media & Information Services, the webhost of Al-Jazeera in Qatar, said that that a denial of service attack started Tueday (local time) so that the English language websites of al Jazeera could not be reached. The server is located in the US and France. Arrashid said that after having analysed the data he thinks that the attack started in the US.
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