Write a hactivism program that will allow users to participate in virtual
sit-ins.

On Sunday, Maximilian Dornseif gave a talk about digital demonstrations.
Obstructive demonstrations and sit-ins are more popular in Europe than in
the U.S., and they are branching out into digital versions, electronic
sit-ins that attempt to slow down or DDOS targeted websites for political
ends. Dornseif described several previous attempts: programs distributed
to automatically reload a targeted website, for instance. Some of them
were quite sophisticated, including one with smart date-checking to make
sure it was used only during the designated protest time. Dornseif
described his ideals for an electronic protest, to make it as similar as
possible to a real-world one: persons involved should be identifiable,
outside observers should be able to know the goal of the protest, etc.
Overall, an electronic protest should have strong parallels to physical
protests, so that if the judicial system examines the legality of what you
are doing, the judge is tempted to find it a legitimate protest rather
than an illegitimate attack by cyber-criminals. Dornseif suggested making
"slow" connections to HTTP servers ("G" sleep 10 "E" sleep 10 "T" sleep 10
...), as well as "accept flooding" -- completing the TCP handshake, but
not actually making any HTTP request -- these are "slow" versions of
regular connections, which make effective DOS's, but also mimic regular
users and might find acceptance in the courts as part of a planned
protest.