Only to play devils advocate here, but if it is not illegal to strike and lockout companies, why should it be illegal to DDOS a site? I understand the thought, but still, they are very much the same. I would not condone this type of behavior, but these kind of things do create attention for your cause. I'm not saying we Hak5ers can do anything about it, but it is still and interesting thought. I would say a benevolent botnet like this would be fun actually. Very much like it was brought up before, TOR and Folding@Home are both "botnets" and they accomplish a lot of good things. Heck, even the Internet itself is a kind of botnet. Maybe a Hak5 opt-out botnet could be cool. It could be used for things like mass emailings. A botnet would accomplish more if it did legal things politically then if it was illegal. Maybe if you want to do something like this run it as an email server, that says to the end user: "Would you like to help with this emailing, and send an email to the representative?" And on the Yes click it would send an email from all of the computers that agree, to the person mainly leading the thing the 'net is against. And if you want you can click No. Make sense?
