Bring Down the System!

Shutting down military phone lines to save lives, using Python.

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1. Bring Down the System! Shutting down military phone lines to save lives, using Python.
2. Who Is This Guy? • Randall Degges (@rdegges) • I just hack code, basically. • Work for a tech startup in the telephony space. • Python. • Django. • Node. • Whatever.
3. Background http://neverfear. org/blog/view/89/Performing_a_Denial_of_Service_DoS_Attack_on_a_Phone_Line
4. In a Nutshell • Syrian uprising. • Military killing civilians. What can I do to help? • Shut down military communications! BUT HOW?!
5. Fuck the Government! • Syrian militia uses phone communication to order troops around. • If you shut down their phones, you stop them. • If you keep their phone lines busy, they can't make (or receive calls). • Perfect candidate for denial of service attack >:)
6. Use VoIP! • Instant setup. • Low (no) cost. • Unlimited phone lines. • Spam their phone lines with calls to prevent them from talking.
7. Asterisk + pycall
8. Asterisk • asterisk.org • Open source phone system. • Runs on linux. • Hooks up to VoIP providers. • Sends phone calls.
9. pycall • pycall.org • python library that sends calls using Asterisk.
10. Let's Code Full Code: https://gist.github.com/239891#file_advanced_flood.py
11. The Main Function
12. Shutting it Down
13. The Moral • Do cool things. • Help people. • You have no idea who will use your code.
14. Hack!