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The Dutch left-liberal political party, “Democrats 66″ has legalized DDoS-attacks . The party insists that it is as a legitimate form of protest, as a picket, strike or demonstration. The representative of the party Kees Verhoeven believes that such legalization is possible if the time required to align the protesters and the timing of an online protest in advance, as is done in the case of conventional protest actions.

Political DDoS-attacks are becoming more common way of protest on the Internet. Thanks to such tools as the LOIC , to participate in them can be anyone. Today in the Netherlands, as in many other countries, participation in DDoS-attack is punishable by law as the intentional disruption of computer systems. “Democrats 66″ does not clarify what criteria will be different legal and illegal DDoS, whether or not a crime to the use of botnets and other “non-lethal weapons” if the action of the victim had been warned in advance, or the activists will have to operate by hand. If it is assumed that at least limited set of tools such as JavaScript-version of LOIC, will be resolved, then we are talking about the actual legalization of certain forms of cyberweapons.