************************************************************************** Disturbance Developer's Kit Electronic Disturbance Theater Virtual Sit-ins ************************************************************************** On April 10,1998 FloodNet Tactical Version 1.0 was showcased during an Electronic Civil Disobedience action against Mexican President Zedillo's web site. A Java applet reload function sent an automated reload request several times per minute to Zedillo's page. Reports from participants and our observations confirmed that the more than 8,000 international participants in this first FloodNet action intermittently blocked access to the Zedillo site on that day. Virtual Sit-ins mobilize and empower netizens to participate in global electronic civil disobedience actions. Designed as a collectively actuated tactical information tool, Virtual Sit-ins invert the logic of wide open propaganda pipes by flooding network connections with millions of hits from widely distributed, fully participatory nodes. Virtual Sit-ins enable a performance of presence, which says to the selected target: we are numerous, alert, and watching carefully. This Virtual Sit-in website does not cause computers to crash. These automated features are simply used to reload a targeted webpage several times per minute. ************************************************************************** Disturbance Developer's Kit Virtual Sit-in Installation Instructions ************************************************************************** INSTRUCTION FOR USE OF THE DISTURBANCE DEVELOPER'S KIT (DDK) The Disturbance Developer's Kit is a toolkit for launching your group's own Virtual Sit-In. All necessary files for flooding a target with requests are included in this package. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The only thing you must to do to customize your Virtual Sit-in is: Set the target URL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setting the target URL ====================== You must edit applet.html exactly as described or all bets are off. The automatic reload java applet uses applet.html. The Virtual Sit-in's automatic website reloads are done by a java applet called zapsFloodNetPublic1.class. The java applet gets the Virtual Sit-in's targeted website from an HTML file called applet.html This HTML file passes the Virtual Sit-in's target to the applet as a parameter. The target DNS parameter and the target's associated image may be changed for each strike. The java applet will look for an image associated with the target named "image100x75.gif" in the Classes folder. The DDK comes with a default image, which you may change. To do so, create a 100x75 pixel, gif format image. Name it "image100x75.gif", and then you must make sure "image100x75.gif" is saved in the Classes folder with that exact name. To change the target DNS, use a text editor to open applet.html. Edit the value of the parameter called "targetURL". The java applet will insert the "http://", so don't include the protocol with the DNS in the parameter value. In the applet.html code excerpt below, I've inserted the target, www.whitehouse.gov, the US White House website as an example.
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Turn it on and try again. Optional: ========= You may also edit title.html if you wish, based on your HTML skills. This file will not impact the java applet. You may want to use your own background image and/or logo too. Attention: ========== You must turn JavaScript off and leave Java on while participating in the Virtual Sit-in. This disables JavaScript countermeasures that may be used by some targeted websites.