Intervasion of the UK
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Intervasion of the UK
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The Intervasion of the UK was a 1994 electronic civil disobedience and collective action against John Major's Criminal Justice Bill which sought to outlaw outdoor dance festivals and "music with a repetitive beat". Launched by a group called The Zippies from San Francisco's 181 Club on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 1994, it resulted in government websites going down for at least a week. It utilised a form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) known as the Email bomb in order to overload servers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervasion_of_the_UK
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2010-12-21T08:31:48Z
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2024-09-06T07:51:01Z
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