A Year Ago: Hackers question Denial of Service as political protest
News The Electrohippies take on Cult of the Dead Cow in hacking legitimacy dispute A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a...
[March 13, 2001, 6:03]
A Year Ago: British cyber-activists switch tactics
News Electrohippies resort to spam Having failed to bring the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) servers down, British cyber-activists 'the Electrohippies' have decided to resort to a good old-fashioned spam attack in their quest to harass the colossus of...
[December 4, 2000, 6:04]
Hackers question Denial of Service as political protest
News A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of Service attacks are a legitimate form of Internet activism.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
After the WTO wash out British cyber-activists switch tactics
News Having failed to bring the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) servers down, British cyber-activists 'the Electrohippies' have decided to resort to a good old-fashioned spam attack in their quest to harass the colossus of global capitalism.
[December 3, 1999, 17:10]
Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News The group, which calls itself the "Electrohippies", warned in an email sent to ZDNet UK News that it intends to organise DoS strikes against these corporations to coincide with the global week of GM protest that starts on 10 April.
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News The group, which calls itself the "Electrohippies", warned in an email sent to ZDNet UK News that it intends to organise DoS strikes against these corporations to coincide with the global week of GM protest that starts on 10 April.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Hacktivists launch virtual demo while streets blocked
News According to the organisers -- the Electrohippies -- Internet action provides the only means to register their opposition to the FTAA and its policies during its conference in Quebec, which starts on Friday.
[April 20, 2001, 16:38]
May Day hysteria unfounded, say activists
News But Paul Mobbs, media and technical coordinator for the Electrohippie Collective, said: "We are aware that some IT security consultants have been spreading spurious stories about the electrohippies and a number of actions and events over the next...
[April 30, 2001, 14:38]
Electrohippes promote online action
News A group calling itself The Electrohippies is promoting a grand scale denial of service attack on financial institutions to coincide with the World Trade Centre meeting this 30 November. These UK based cyber activists are promoting a "virtual sit-in...
[November 25, 1999, 16:08]
Political hackers are modern freedom fighters
News His own Web project, the Electrohippies Collective, has sought to incite Internet attacks on multinational corporations to coincide with anti-capitalist protesting offline. Hacktivists have officially moved from nerdish extremists to become the...
[March 8, 2001, 12:10]
Hackers become terrorists under new law
News GreenNet consultant and online activist Paul Mobbs, who has coordinated protests through his site, Electrohippies, says that the Act may result in Internet campaigns being controlled. Computer hackers could be classed as terrorists under a UK law...
[February 19, 2001, 15:35]
