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Linux protestors fail to win rebate of 'Microsoft tax'
News Those hoping to get money back for their unused operating systems during Windows Refund Day were met with locked elevators at the office of Microsoft in Foster City, California. Twenty people looking for a refund -- along with nearly 100 supporters...
[February 16, 1999, 8:34]
Fur trade activists planning DoS attack
News Fur trade protestors are planning to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the fur industry on Valentine's Day. On the ECD Web site, protestors wrote: "In the action on 14 February 2005 the "Protest Online Chat" will be employed.
[January 25, 2005, 15:30]
Hacktivists launch virtual demo while streets blocked
News The Electrohippies are a group of anti-capitalist protestors based in Oxfordshire. According to Corporate Watch, a UK-based civil liberties group, organisations such as the FTAA are becoming increasingly tough on street protestors.
[April 20, 2001, 16:38]
Developers and mimes protest software patents
News The protestors wore black T-shirts with slogans such as "patent inflation is not a victimless crime", "protect innovation against software patents" and "software patents kill innovation" in English and French, and carried black balloons.
[August 28, 2003, 15:35]
Herbless the hacker supports petrol protest
News The cracker -- Herbless -- who has targeted numerous UK Web sites in recent weeks including government sites and Legoland, defaced a wide range of corporate Internet sites with a heart-warming message of support for protestors.
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Fur protesters launch Web attacks
Talkback These AR protestors need to have their heads examined- why is it they believe in free speech, but only for people that they support?
[February 15, 2005, 11:36]
Fury over Facebook terms of service changes
Blog On one side, privacy protestors who claim that the changes mean that Facebook "Can Do Anything [it wants] With Your Content. Arguments are raging about a change Facebook has made to its terms of service (TOS).
[February 18, 2009, 11:34]
Web search error adds Muppet to Bin Laden cause
News The danger of relying on the Internet for sourcing images was illustrated graphically this week when protestors at an anti-American Islamic rally in Bangladesh were pictured carrying posters of Osama Bin Laden flanked by Sesame Street character Bert.
[October 11, 2001, 12:36]
G20 police use usual surveillance methods
Blog Comment With all those police cameramen and all the media cameramen, plus all the casual observer camerapersons (no doubt fueling up their Twitter picture bank) it almost seems like the protestors were thin on the ground.
[April 2, 2009, 11:08]
World Economic Forum hacking suspect nabbed
News The attention gained by the Forum from anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism protestors sparked suspicions that the hackers could have had political motivations. Swiss police have arrested a man suspected of hacking the World Economic Forum in...
[February 24, 2001, 7:24]
Gerstner's $5bn spending spree
News After a brief initial interruption by a handful of protestors over environment-related concerns, Gerstner spent much of his hour-long keynote taking potshots at companies who thought of e-business as a get-rich-quick fad.
[December 12, 2000, 16:17]
Protesters to Nike: Just hack it!
News In the release, the company disavows any connection with the protestors and says it has been working to remedy the problem as quickly as possible. Nike's Web site is the latest victim of 'domain name hijacking'.
[June 22, 2000, 8:17]
Mobile phone mast attacked
News According to The Belfast Telegraph the UVF statement said that they would support the protestors in "whatever measures they feel they must take to prevent the erection of the mast. A second mobile phone mast has been destroyed in Northern Ireland...
[January 3, 2003, 15:18]
Shareholders take stock of Apple
News The tone of the recycling debate this year was far more cordial than last year, when protestors gathered outside Apple's headquarters to criticise the company's recycling efforts, and Jobs compared the negative assessments of Apple's environmental...
[April 28, 2006, 11:20]
"Jam Echelon Day" doomed to failure, say experts
News Davies advises protestors to send a whole series of original keyword transmissions through email, rather than relying on someone else's template. A group of Internet activists are hoping to bring attention to the US-led communications spy network...
[July 26, 2001, 16:21]
US Senate restarts .XXX debate
Talkback You wouldn't let protestors protest in your homes so why should you let porn invade your computer screens. Ok so i know this article is a bit old however I feel that commenting on it now is as appropriate as ever.
[August 7, 2006, 18:42]
Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News The E-hippies recently published a paper calling for the broad use of Denial of Service attacks by protestors. British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to launch Denial of Service attacks on several multinational...
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News The E-hippies recently published a paper calling for the broad use of Denial of Service attacks by protestors. Denial of Service strikes will coincide with GM protest week British cyber-activists, angry at the advent of GM foods, have pledged to...
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Steve Jobs takes another dollar from Apple
News After being targeted by protestors, Jobs defended Apple's environmental record at last year's shareholder meeting. Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, once again took home a $1 (60p) salary, although his net worth got a boost as the company's...
[March 14, 2006, 8:45]
Unions protest against BT's wireless sell-off
News Protestors, one of whom donned a Grim Reaper costume, appealed to shareholders to block the move amid claims that thousands of jobs were at stake. Crowds of demonstrators greeted the BT shareholders who gathered at the Birmingham National...
[October 23, 2001, 13:10]
