[IP] Old fashioned denial of service attacks
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From: RalphW <rwhyre@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 10, 2006 7:35:34 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Old fashioned denial of service attacks
[for IP if you wish]
from Yahoo news - This is the first published report I'd seen on
this, although I imagine it's happened before, on both sides. Maybe
social networking software should be embedded into cell phones so you
can tell if it's friend of (potential) foe calling. Clearly, caller-
ID alone isn't enough.
- Ralph]
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire
Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White
House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records
introduced in criminal court show.
The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who
recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White
House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the
phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly
shut down.
The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to
defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business
and that it was "preposterous" to suggest the calls involved phone
jamming.
...
Repeated hang-up calls that jammed telephone lines at a Democratic
get-out-the-vote center occurred in a Senate race in which Republican
John Sununu defeated Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, 51 percent to 46
percent, on Nov. 5, 2002.
Besides the conviction of Tobin, the Republicans' New England
regional director, prosecutors negotiated two plea bargains: one with
a New Hampshire Republican Party official and another with the owner
of a telemarketing firm involved in the scheme. The owner of the
subcontractor firm whose employees made the hang-up calls is under
indictment.
...
The Democrats said in their civil case motion that they were entitled
to know the purpose of the calls to government offices "at the time
of the planning and implementation of the phone-jamming
conspiracy ... and the timing of the phone calls made by Mr. Tobin on
Election Day."
While national Republican officials have said they deplore such
operations, the Republican National Committee said it paid for
Tobin's defense because he is a longtime supporter and told officials
he had committed no crime.
By Nov. 4, 2002, the Monday before the election, an Idaho firm was
hired to make the hang-up calls. The Republican state chairman at the
time, John Dowd, said in an interview he learned of the scheme that
day and tried to stop it.
Dowd, who blamed an aide for devising the scheme without his
knowledge, contended that the jamming began on Election Day despite
his efforts. A police report confirmed the Manchester Professional
Fire Fighters Association reported the hang-up calls began about 7:15
a.m. and continued for about two hours. The association was offering
rides to the polls.
Virtually all the calls to the White House went to the same number,
which currently rings inside the political affairs office. In 2002,
White House political affairs was led by now-RNC chairman Ken
Mehlman. The White House declined to say which staffer was assigned
that phone number in 2002.
...
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