Group of angry netizens give ultimatum for govt to renounce single gateway policy
A group of netizens, who reportedly brought down the Information and Communications Ministry's website with DDoS attack, gave an ultimatum for the government to renounce the single Internet gateway policy before the midnight of October 14 or face unprece
The group, which calls itself “Citizens against Single Gateway”, issued a statement online before midnight Friday, demanding that the Cabinet must issue a resolution or the prime minister must issue an order to formally cancel the single gateway policy by 11:30 pm on October 14.
“If the deadline is passed without the government changing its gesture and the stand, the Citizens against Single Gateway will use severe measures to retaliate against the government without announcing the targets in advance,” the statement said.
On Wednesday, the group circulated online calls for angry netizens to simultaneously mount DDoS attack on the ICT website at 10 pm but the website was brought down apparently with overwhelming number of packets of requests by 7 pm before it went back only at 1 am Thursday.
The group said in the statement that it would minimise impact on the public but it sought public understanding that collateral damage would be unavoidable in in the fight against efforts to “establish a dictatorial state in all spaces, including the cyber space”.
The group said in the statement that its measures would aim at sending a strong and clear message to the government that the administration would fail to control the people's communications effectively.
It said the group has already contemplated the consequence of its retaliatory measures the government but “in time of war, losses will be unavoidable”.
