Fake Steve Jobs has been on quite a role lately. He recently penned a blistering account of a fake conversation with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, in which he called AT&T out for the stupidity of their recent statements on cracking down iPhone data hogs. Now, as a follow up, he’s gone one step further and has arranged a digital revolt against AT&T. He calls it Operation Chokehold.
FSJ asks for iPhone users to saturate the 3G data network on Friday, December 18 at 12PM PST — basically, as a way to stick it to AT&T. Users on his comments are already coming up with the most efficient way to saturate data. It’d be interesting to see how much this catches on, and if he could even get in trouble because he’s basically inciting a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.
Here’s the letter his fake engineers have been passing around:
Subject: Operation Chokehold
On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. THe idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!
Are you joining in? Do you think he’s going to far? And is this fair to AT&T? Sound out in the comments!
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December 17th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
So, let me get this straight. You are advising folks, as a way to get ATT’s attention, to use a fee based service for an hour to disrupt overall service?
ATT isn’t going to give a sh!t. After an hour they will consider the problem solved and the participants just another group of fools with their money parted.
The folks to put pressure on is Apple to not extend or renew the ATT deal. Let the iPhone be free and available on any 3G/4G network.
If the rumors I hear are true and Verizon gets the iPhone in 2010, I will gladly pat the early term fee and go back to VZW.
Seriously, this is the best you can come up with?
Fake SJ indeed!
December 18th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I agree…..make Apple make the decision…that way when it does go to Verizon…then they can have the SAME EXACT TROUBLE AT&T IS HAVING………
December 18th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Ok, so here’s my two cents … I think that it’s likely an FCC violation to partake in a DDOS, and that it’s pretty stupid to partake of it from a phone on which you can be tracked … see, if you could spoof your MAC, IP, or even Phone Number, it would make sense … but there’s a fair chance that if ATT&T decided to prosecute, they would have pretty free and clear access to find out everyone that they would need to file against, based on their own call logs.
Probably not a good idea … it’s an idiotic moment of passion, which has no basis in the reality of how things are… it won’t make anything better, and could (as the FCC so succinctly put it) cause issues for emergency services. Just think of the lawsuit … my daddy died of a heart attack on the side of the road because we couldn’t call 911 … ATT&T, could you please provide me with a list of all the people that I can sue into oblivion for reckless endangerment and manslaughter? thank you….
Please consider carefully how an action like this might affect your future, and the future of others, before you partake in an idiotic act of passion, which most you only consider for the pure moment of joy you think you might obtain by “being a part of something bigger”.