( http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html ~ New Media Art p.40 )
Zapatista Tactical FloodNet is a html web application that visits nonexistant urls of certain targeted websites. The catch is that the user inputs the message they want to send to the website holder, which the program converts into a url that it visits. This causes an error to be recorded on the site's error log. The purpose of this is to leave a message using civil disobedience. Using the webapp, people have submitted names of people silenced by their dictatorship to its error log.
I am unsure of the effectiveness of this idea, since the people in charge of the government are unlikely to read their website's error log. Electronic civil disobedience is an interesting idea, however. I feel as though it might be unsafe to protest the government in this way. Your IP address is traceable, and if the government was willing to kill someone, what's to stop them from killing you as well for trying to keep their actions in the light?
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