I just came up with this idea which i think it's great and if you don't agree with me, don't say a word. During the last two weeks, hundreds of unsatisfied people has been making protests and blocking the streets of my country in order to gain the attention of the government for a particular reason, or many, i'm not so sure.

The point is that, the people who carries a protest against government must understand that no matter how stupid it sounds, a protest is a marketing war. And the only way of getting the government's attention is to make it to the media, big time, *but* it won't work if the whole country is pissed off with you. It is a double sided sword, because you might end up in the media, for the mistaken reasons.

Then there was me, sitting on a bus, in the middle of a bloated street, cars were not moving and i was unable to name the place where i was because the driver though that taking this road would save some time and maybe avoid the traffic jam, caused by the street-blocking tens of miles ahead. Then, i though "what a stupid idea to try to get the government's attention!". There's got to be another way. And i've though of one. Sit tight cuz' here goes the explanation:

First at all, let me introduce you to the website for the congress of Costa Rica: http://www.asamblea.go.cr, which can also be routed by http://congreso.aleg.go.cr. As you probably know, this website is hosted in a server inside Costa Rica, probably the property of Racsa (http://www.racsa.co.cr). As a government site in Costa Rica, it is highly expectable that the bandwidth for a site like this is minimal. And so the mail accounts of all politicians should be pretty limited too.

You with me? Not yet? Ok, my idea, in a nutshell is to focus on something that attracts the media, but that won't make the whole country upset. You wanna block something? then block their fucking website and their stupid mail accounts!!!

[1] Bring their website(s) down and [2] Block their mail accounts. Now you ask how? For the first task, an application that runs from any machine connected to the internet, what it does is to send stress-requests to the page in question. You could say this is illegal, and even when i'm not so sure if there's any laws in Costa Rica against sending massive requests to a website, it is also illegal to block the streets, so...

Requests can't bring a website down you say? Dude, you ever heard of the slashdot effect?

Now for the second task, a similar application, that takes some particular text and randomizes it so that it doesn't look the same, then sends it several times to the mail address specified.

Imagine a website called: virtualprotest.com, you download the applications, and coordinate with your people to make an attack/protest to certain websites and mails at a certain moment, or during a certain period. Call the media and notify them about the event, let them witness the power of a focused protest. Then the media will notify the rest of the country and they won't be upset. Politicians would have to listen to you if the want their porn and viagra mails back, as well as their sucky websites.

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