The Coming Swarm

What is Hacktivism In The Coming Swarm, rising star Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing When there is a message to convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity As familiar and widely accepted activist tools petitions, fundraisers, mass letter writing, call in campaigns and others find equivalent practices in the online space, is there also room for the tactics of disruption and civil disobedience that are equally familiar from the realm of street marches, occupations, and sit ins With a historically grounded analysis, and a focus on early deployments of activist DDOS as well as modern instances to trace its development over time, The Coming Swarm uses activist DDOS actions as the foundation of a larger analysis of the practice of disruptive civil disobedience on the internet. Read The Coming Swarm Author Molly Sauter – kino-fada.fr But the danger of the digital public sphere is not exclusion but invisibility As Herbert Simon observed, a surplus of information leads to a surfeit of attention in a digital public sphere, anyone can speak, but not everyone can be heard I am constantly stunned by my rush of endorphins when an update says, So and so likes your review on Goodreads I know it is a trap, that variable interval reward sche...Full disclosure I am a good friend and colleague of the author and followed this work from near its inception This is an important contribution to political theory, social movements and civic studies Molly provides a nuanced argument for situating DDOS within a repertoire ofwidely and traditionally accepted civil disobedience tactics Her command of the relevant history, literature, and theory allows her to trace the fundamental qualities of disruptive political action, cutting through Full disclosure I...This is hard to rate It s Sauter s dissertation, in book form It s written by an academic, for academics, in academic ese, if you get my drift Academic papers are written in a certain way format, language There are many confluences of computational circumstances that appear identical in form to a DoS or DDos action but that are not DDos actions , style Here s this important thing, but we re not going to talk about it for fourchapters This book reads like that.I heard of this This is hard to rate It s Sauter s dissertation, in book form It s written by an academic, for academics, in academic ese, if you get my drift Academic papers are written in a certain way format, language There are many confluences of computational circumstances that appear identical in form to a DoS or DDos action but that are not DDos actions , style Here s this important thing, but we re not going to talk about it for fourchapters This book reads like that.I heard of this book on a Science Friday interview, and thought it sounded fascinating Based on that interview, we read it for my book club, and for those of us who managed to get through it, it sparked a fascinating discussion.This book makes for some GREAT conversation Does intention make a difference in an internet action How have internet DDos actions changed over time Does claiming them vs being anonymous make a difference Is Civil Disobedience online the same as the CD of the Civil Rights Era, as it claims to be How are pu...As our world is ever reliant and connected we hear and readabout hackers taking over computer systems and creating disruption Some of the hackers are doing it just for mischief, some for commercial gain and some are pursuing a political point What about civil disobedience, political activism and ordinary people getting their voice heard This is potentially a fine line depending on the path of action being taken yet something that will have an increasing importance in the future.Read As our world is ever reliant and connected we hear and readabout hackers taking over computer systems and creating disruption Some of the hackers are doing it just for mischief, some for commercial gain and some are pursuing a political point Wha...Sauter provides a convincing lens and reframing for thinking of distributed denial of service DDOS tactics as speech actions, rather than attacks She works through the political theory precedents as well as novelties that have made these actions difficult for the media and the popular consciousness to process and contextualize Sauter s work is both deeply informed and largely accessible Sauter convincingly argues that the stakes of future DDOS actions lie in their ability to provide space f Sauter provides a convincing lens and reframing for thinking of distributed denial of service DDOS tactics as speech actions, rat...Ms Sauter has written a detailed and thought provoking book on Denial of Service attacks as political activism rather than criminal acts The points she makes are thoughtful and thought provoking She is truly knowledgeable about this subject and explains her position well.One must discern between Denial of Service actions as being either politically activist oriented or criminally oriented pay or we ll take your website down This book is about the former and it makes the reader think about Ms Sauter has written a detailed and thought provoking book on Denial of Service attacks as political activism rather than criminal acts The points she makes are thoughtful and thought provoking She is truly knowledgeable about th...Molly Sauter s The Coming Swarm is an excellent analysis of what it means to perform civil disobedience online It lays out the history of distributed denial of service attacks from Electronic Disturbance Theater to the electrohippies to Anonymous Sauter does a great job of ...A pretty good and concise history of DDoS actions and some of its complications in legal and ethical senses There was a very brief and alarming part about how terrible the CFAA is This book should be coupled with Olson s...A very interesting take on how DDoS attacks on websites perpetrated by Anonymous and other online groups are in line with traditional civil disobedience tactics, and how the internet is boxing out fringe groups from having their voices heard T...I almost wish this book was written backwards The bulk of the book feels fluffy compared to the punch of the last chapter I stayed with it though because The Coming Swarm is quite clearly and coherently written for an academic text It didn t feel like work to consume and left me thinking for sure.

• 11 September 2017
Molly Sauter
• Paperback
• 192 pages
• 1623564565
• Molly Sauter
• The Coming Swarm