The author, Gabriella Coleman, explores the idea that DDoS attacks are not a new phenomena, and that they were first recorded in the late 1990s. Coleman examines how the DDos attacks are filtering into public consciousness, but difficult for the…
The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The…