<nettime> [woooogram x2: info war + cyber war declared on world bank]

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From: dr woooo <vornman@excite.com>
     info war 
     (en) MEDIA - Cyber War Declared on World     Bank 

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:23:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: dr woooo <vornman@excite.com>
Subject: info war 

'Professor Angell said: "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought
by capitalists and anti-capitalists as society polarises. When that happens,
control of information will be as important as control of territory used to
be in conventional conflicts. If you can stop your enemy from destroying
your information, then you have a good chance of winning the war." '

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=01/06/11/1381011

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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:24:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: dr woooo <vornman@excite.com>
Subject:  (en) MEDIA - Cyber War Declared on World     Bank 

   if only someone was doing it ...   no dont do that !
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Cyber War Declared on World Bank
by John Vidal and Charlotte Denny

Protesters threatened last night to use "cyber sit-ins" to derail a
high-profile development conference organized by the World Bank, after the
Washington-based body announced it would hold the conference online to avoid
demonstrations.
The bank is the latest casualty of the increasingly violent climate
surrounding international summits since protesters disrupted global trade
talks in Seattle at the end of 1999. It decided to hold its annual
conference on development economics on the internet after thousands of
protesters threatened to descend next week on Barcelona, the original venue.

But the emerging anti-globalization protest movement warned that a virtual
conference was just a vulnerable as a live gathering.

"One skilled IT protester could easily crash the whole event. It may be seen
as a challenge to scupper the conference", said one protester/hacker who
specializes in IT protests.

Cyber-protest is a well-developed tool of protest groups who use computers
to exchange information, organize demonstrations and bombard political
leaders with demands. Greenpeace has more than 100,000 supporters prepared
to use their computers as a protest weapon and claims numerous successes
persuading corporations to change policies after subjecting them to a
barrage of email.

"If the bank wants contributions to this conference from around the world
then they could regret this," said Roger Higman of Friends of the Earth.
Earlier this year the pressure group brought down the White House website
several times with more than 100,000 people protesting against President
Bush's stance on climate change.

The bank admitted that the internet conference could also be besieged by
groups opposed to its economic prescriptions for third world economies. The
sessions will be interactive, allowing participants to email questions to
the speakers, but also providing an opportunity for protesters to attack.

"We've taken reasonable precautions but if there is a major effort to close
us down, I can't promise that the computers will hold up," said a bank
spokesman.

If the protesters succeed in disrupting the conference, "that will reflect
badly on them and their attitude towards free speech and freedom of
discussion," he added. The topic of the conference is Globalization, Poverty
and Wealth.

Globalize Resistance, a socialist group which intends to take thousands of
people to Genoa for next month's G8 meeting, said: "We can still party in
Barcelona and have more fun than if we were in front of computer screens.
They can run, but they cannot hide."

The bank's annual meeting in Prague last September was surrounded by
thousands of protesters who battled with the police.

Explaining the decision to abandon the Barcelona event, a World Bank
spokeswoman, Caroline Anstey, said: "A conference on poverty reduction
should take place in a peaceful atmosphere free from heckling, violence and
intimidation."


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