The webmaster of HuntingdonSucks.Com recently posted an e-mail that Huntingdon Life Sciences had sent to the Internet Service Provider who provides hosting for that site. Below is the full text of what was posted on the anti-HLS site:
From: IT Support Manager [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 4:31 AM
To: ‘[email protected]’; ‘[email protected]’
Cc: Legal Department; ‘[email protected]’
Subject: Complaint against www.huntingdonsucks.com hosted by yourselvesDear Sirs
Huntingdon Life Sciences are a Government licensed contract research organisation for the pharmaceutical and agrochemicals industries and as such are subject to abuse and harrassment from so-called “animal rights” groups.
Your organisation is hosting www.huntingdonsucks.com a website which openly supports a campaign to close down this company and amongst various untruths about this company exhorts people to participate in a denial of service attack on 14th June.
Clearly this specific page (text in full below along with the URL) and the content of the site in general are in flagrant breach of your acceptable use policies and relevant laws and we request you terminate this website forthwith.
Yours sincerely
IT Support Manager
HUNTINGDON LIFE.SCIENCES LIMITED
LEGAL NOTICE:-
This message is confidential and contains information which may be legally privileged. It is intended for the stated addressee(s) only. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this e-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorised and is unlawful. If you are not the addressee, please inform the sender immediately.
Huntingdon Life.Sciences Limited registered in England No. 1815730. Registered office: Woolley Road, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4HS
Contrary to the claims of the webmaster and other animal rights activists, HuntingdonSucks.Com is attempting to suppress free speech and UrbanWeb.Net should refused to host the site.
HuntingdonSucks.Com is organizing a denial of service attack against Huntingdon Life Sciences scheduled for June 14, 2002. On that date HuntingdonSucks.Com plans to offer a web page where people can go to flood HLS’s web servers with requests in order to make it impossible for anyone else to access their web site. Such actions are blatantly illegal and those participating in organized denial of service attacks, regardless of the motivation, should be prosecuted.
Please consider sending an e-mail to [email protected] and [email protected] politely asking them why they continue to host a site that is openly organizing a denial of service attack.
Sources:
Electronic Civil Disobedience: Protest Online – 14th June 2002. HuntingdonSucks.Com, 2002.
HLS Try to Silence Us Again. HuntingdonSucks.Com, May 14, 2002.