The ‘Devil Woman’ denial of service attack
‘She’s just a devil woman, with evil on her mind,
Beware the devil woman, she’s gonna get you from behind.’
In 2006 Sir Cliff Richard had a conservatory built onto his house on the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water, Surrey, but it had been erected without planning permission. On the 30th June 2009 he applied to the Planning Committee of Runnymede Borough Council (RBC) for retrospective permission. Instead the Council ordered him to demolish the £30,000 structure.
Sir Cliff was upset, but his fans (mostly female) were furious. Quite spontaneously they started e-mailing RBC to express displeasure. They wrote in their thousands, in their tens of thousands. The Council system was overwhelmed – and crashed.
I’ve been trying to e-mail two of my councillors since last Sunday – today is Wednesday. All I get is a message telling me that my letter has been ‘enqueued’ and is ‘undeliverable.’ They should have added ‘Congratulations!’
Cliff’s Devil Women have succeeded in getting RBC from behind with a classic example of a denial of service attack!
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