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The BNP website continues to be under a sustained terrorist attack which has much wider implications for national security and E-commerce.

Summary

The web domain of the BNP (www.bnp.org.uk) came under a serious "denial of service attack" in the early hours of Friday morning. What this means is that the computer (web server) on which the BNP website material resides suffered from a flood of simultaneous requests. Webservers are designed to handle hundreds of simultaneous requests but not tens of thousands. All the hosting company (the company that physically holds the webserver in its building) can do in this scenario, is literally "pull the plug", disconnecting the particular webserver from the Internet and switching off the power.

Migration of data to a replacement webserver was immediately undertaken by the web hosting company. This allowed the BNP web site to be visible for 12-18 hrs during Friday/early Saturday but then this replacement machine came under sustained attack again, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

At this juncture the Party had to move to a standby web domain (www.bnp.to) which allows you to read this material right now.

Terrorist attack

This attack is not just a bit of harmless fun by some precocious teenager. It is a criminal attack on the BNP, it is a terrorist attack which is now the subject of both British police and American FBI investigations. It is an attack not just upon the freedom of speech of the British National Party and the freedom of every Internet user to listen and read about the BNP, it is a terrorist attack with dire commercial consequences and serious implications for national security.
The 'Denial Of Service' attacks upon the BNP website are acts of Terrorism as defined under Section 1 ( 2 ) ( b ) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

US based hosts

The BNP has a contract with a Kentucky based hosting company whereby we rent space on one of their webservers. Also on this webserver are scores of other websites including many of America's leading e-commerce stores. The downtime is causing severe financial damage to those businesses. The BNP made a difficult decision a few years ago to have our site hosted in the States, partly because of the the pressure by the British Government being increasingly applied to dissenting voices.

Crisis talks

The hosting company have held a crisis meeting this afternoon and technical sources from the company report that this is the most "serious and sophisticated" attack they have ever witnessed.

Any defences they have applied to the webserver have failed and the webserver once online comes under repeated attack.

This new level of sophistication being employed against the BNP and the US based hosts could come from many disparate sources and some ideas mooted by professionals in the industry this afternoon, suggest a foreign Government, organised crime gangs from within the former Soviet Union through to terror groups such as Al-Queda. Few other agencies or groups would have this kind of sophisticated know-how.

The origin of this particular attack is unknown and the "Daily Record's" claim to have been contacted by "HackArmy" is highly likely to be a juvenile piece of sloppy diversionary journalism.

BNP in the frontline

The BNP are the frontline in the ' war against terrorism ' as we are the guardians of freedom of speech in Britain, but that frontline may be readily opened up readily unless the culprits are traced and caught. Some insiders are suggesting that the BNP has not been directly targeted because of its political views, but because it is a busy site which draws a lot of traffic. In addition it is a "soft target"; because the presence of the BNP online is considered to be controversial, and is loathed and vilified by the New Labour regime a hostile attack on the BNP would be dismissed by the investigation bodies as some kind of political spat.
However what happens to the BNP today could well happen to another much larger and more influential body tomorrow. Imagine this level of technology being used not against the BNP but a major bank in Britain. The consequences would be serious as hundreds of thousands of customers were denied access to their online bank accounts. A sustained attack on two or more banks would lead to meltdown in the banking sector and the British economy would be seriously damaged.

The same kind of Internet attack could be deployed against any of the emergency and rescue services; medical records could be destroyed, ambulance and fire brigade calls lost or ambulances and fire-engines redirected and recalled. Imagine if the intelligence gathering agencies were unable to conduct secure email activity because of such an attack in a bid to disable anti-terror operations and this was followed up by a major physical attack on a British shopping centre or sports stadium.

An act of terror against British interests

This deliberate attack is not just about shutting down the BNP's website for a few days. This is a pre-emptive attack to very likely to be a test of a very sophisticated cyber-weapon which tomorrow or next week could be used to shut down a major e-commerce operator, it could be Amazon or Ebay or a major supplier of pharmaceutical drugs to the NHS or catering supplies to Britain's hospitals.

This cyber-weapon is powerful and could be used to extort millions of pounds from a large e-commerce operator. Bring down a website and simply blackmail the operator to paying a large sum of cash into the Russian, Swiss or Chinese bank account.

The BNP are standing in the frontline of attacks against all Internet activities and thereby standing up for all businesses, large and small which have a web presence and conduct e-commerce activities. This attack as we have learned today transcends party political issues and suggests that a clear and present danger now exists which result in widespread social and economic disruption and resulting chaos in Britain.

State of emergency

The BNP is calling upon the security services and other investigation bodies to view this as a state of emergency. While the BNP website is under attack today, anyone with an Internet presence could be a target tomorrow.