Purpose – This paper aims to examine whether there are morally defensible reasons for using or operating websites (called ‘booters’) that offer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on a specified target to users for a price. Booters have been linked to some of themost powerful DDoS attacks in recent years. Design/methodology/approach – The authors identify the various parties associated...

Comments on: NASCIMENTO DE LIMA, Bárbara. Civil disobedience: a dispute of concepts. (des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, v. 3, n. 2, pp. 27-64.

Paediatricians at the Lady Cilento Hospital in Brisbane are now entering the sixth day of their protest against the Australian government’s intention to send the young baby of asylum seeker parents back to a refugee detention centre on the Pacific island of Nauru. They believe that the centre cannot provide a safe environment for her, an assertion that is backed by ample evidence. 3 These docto...