【新唐人2014年06月18日訊】香港「和平佔領中環（Occupy Central with Love and Peace）」爭取普選運動，將於20號到22號正式開放給市民進行電子投票。但是，上個星期五開放的類比預先電子投票登記系統，在運作了30小時後就遭到了極罕見的駭客攻擊，而導致全系統癱瘓。網絡安全專家形容這次攻擊規模之大、時間之長是香港史上首見。不過，受「和平佔中」委託的「香港大學民意研究計劃（Public Opinion Programme）」除了強烈譴責駭客事件外，也開始著手研究力抗假普選的其他方案。
「香港大學民意研究計劃」16號發表聲明說，自6月13號啟動「6.22民間全民投票」流動應用程式電子投票系統後，系統運作30小時並成功接受了超過二萬市民預先登記。不過，投票系統後來遭到了駭客攻擊，三家網絡供應商先後「投降」，無法為用戶提供服務。模擬投票系統在過去兩天已經無法正常運作。
「香港互聯網協會網絡安全及隱私小組」召集人楊和生表示，這次駭客用分散式阻斷服務攻擊（DDoS）的方式，分別以每秒75gb、10gb攻擊其中兩個網絡供應商，規模「誇張得驚人」。他解釋說，全香港互聯網使用高峰期的每秒流量，也只是400gb至500gb。這說明，這次攻擊已佔用了全香港約兩成的互聯網頻寬。
除此之外，駭客同時還狂轟為這次提供服務的域名解析服務器（DNS），使DNS在20小時內有超過100億次的系統查詢。
據「華爾基利資訊安全研究組織」電腦保安研究員賴灼東估計，要做到如此大規模攻擊，背後的「喪屍網絡」最少有5000部電腦，甚至過萬部或更多。
旅美中國社會問題研究人士張健認為，中共利用駭客的手法越來越嫺熟、越來越明目張膽、和無所顧忌，也越來越多的動用國家資源進行有目地攻擊。
旅美中國社會問題研究人士張健：「過去對一些歐美國家政府機關竊取機密，到今年6.4癱瘓6.4全球網路會議，一直到香港的本次大型活動，用這種極卑劣的駭客組織去破壞，足以證明其實在中共統治下，他最害怕的就是民聲，他最害怕的人民反對極權。」
張健指出，中共怎麼搞破壞也無法阻擋歷史，而這種人神共憤的做法，會激起越來越多的追求民主人士，和以前圍觀人士，加入反對他們的行列。
香港知名評論人士林保華表示，「看看中共對付小小香港的『超限戰』，豈止台灣要吸取教訓，日本、美國也必須警覺，關係惡化，首打網絡戰。」
「港大民研計劃」總監鍾庭耀形容﹕這次駭客攻擊是「科技暴力」。而「社會在譴責肢體暴力的時候，應該同時譴責語言暴力、政治暴力、科技暴力」。他還認為，「如果連鼓勵和平理性方式解決制度紛爭都無法辦好，香港的前途將會非常暗淡」。
香港「公民黨」主席余若薇表示，任何國家如果認為自己是強國的話，就應該對人民寬大﹔越對人民壓迫，越是一個膽怯的政權。
同時，香港「工黨」主席李卓人、和香港「工會聯合會」副會長黃國健都認為，駭客攻擊會激起更多的市民投票。
香港捍衛法輪功大聯盟創始人熊立：「現在當前最關鍵的是兩件大事，一是6.22投票，一是7.1大遊行。這兩件事情是中共千方百計的利用各種手段、各種管道、各種方法，都要把這兩個活動把他打下去，把人數降低。」
香港「捍衛法輪功大聯盟」的創始人熊立認為，「6.22全民投票」是影響香港今後民主發展進程的大局的事情，所以中共非常恐懼，不擇手段的搞破壞。
目前，「港大民研計劃」已著手準備應付駭客攻擊的備選方案，如果電子投票系統無法修復，他們會採用自己管理的125條投票線路，為市民提供平板電腦供人投票，甚至延長投票日數和時間等措施。
熊立甚至認為，「港大民研計劃」應向美國《大紀元》新聞集團求助，因為《大紀元》已經頂住了中共的多次駭客攻擊。
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Hong Kong Vote Site Hacked
Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) website
initiated an online vote on Hong Kong’s chief executive
system, open to the public from June 20 to 22.
However, a pre-registration system for voters was
hacked last Friday 30 hours after its opening.
It caused the entire system to shut down.
Internet experts say that the scale and the length of the attacks
are unprecedented in Hong Kong history.
Apart from condemning the hackers, the Public Opinion
Programme (POP) that was entrusted by OCLP
started researching other methods of anti-fraud voting.
On June 16, POP issued a statement saying that popvote.hk
launched on June 13, received pre-registration from over
20,000 citizens.within 20 hours.
Later, the system came under attack, three ISPs
couldn’t provide service for the customer,
so the pre-registration system couldn’t operate as normal
over the last two days.
Young Wo-sang, Convener of Hong Kong Internet Security
and Privacy Working Group, says that hackers used a DDoS
(distributed denial-of-service) to attack a targeted system.
They attacked 75Gb to 10Gb per second to
two of the ISPs, the scale of the attacks are shocking.
Young explained that in Hong Kong the peak time of
internet usage flow is only 400gb to 500gb per second.
Thus this time they attacked about 20% of the entire
bandwidth in Hong Kong.
In addition, they attacked DNS (Domain Name
System) server, as a result, there were more than 10 billion
DNS IP requests within 20 hours.
Lai Cheuk-tung, researcher of VXRL speculates that
to achieve such large scale attacks,
at least 5,000 to 10,000 hacker computers had to be involved.
Zhang Jian, US-based China affairs expert says that
the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) hackers become
more skillful and brazen without scruple.
They use more and more national resources
attacking purposely.
Zhang Jian: “In the past, the CCP stole confidential
documents from European and American governments.
This year from June 4 global online conference to this present
incident in Hong Kong, the CCP has used despicable hacker
groups to cause damage.
This indicates that the CCP’s greatest fear is people’s voices
and people standing up against them.”
Zhang Jian says that no matter how much damage CCP caused,
it cannot stop history.
The CCP’s practice provokes everyone’s indignation,
and will trigger more people and bystanders who long for
democracy to join the anti-CCP group.
Lin Baohua, Hong Kong’s famous commentator says that
“From the lesson of how the CCP treats Hong Kong
with 『extreme war’, not only Taiwan needs to learn the lesson,
but Japan and the US also must be on the alert.
If their relations with China become worse,
the CCP’s first attack would be via the internet.”
Robert Chung, director of Public Opinion Programme,
University of Hong Kong (UHK POP) said
“this attack was violence of science and technology.
While society is condemning physical violence,
violent language, and political violence,
so science and technology violence should also be condemned.”
Robert Chung stated that Hong Kong’s future would be
very dark if resolving the conflict in a peaceful and rational
way couldn’t be well promoted.
Audrey EU Yuet-mee, Chairman of the Civic Party says that
if any country thinks itself powerful,
then it should be generous to its people.
If there is more suppression of its people,
this country must be a weak one.
Lee Cheuk-yan, Chairman of the Labor Party and
Wong Kwok-kin, vice president of Hong Kong Federation
of Trade Unions said that the attacks would trigger
even more citizens to take part in the vote.
Xiong Li, founder, Hong Kong Alliance to Defend Falun Gong:
“Now there are two major issues,
one is the election vote on June 22,
the other the big parade on July 1.
The CCP tries all its means to suppress the two major events,
or to reduce the number of participants.”
Xiong Li says that June 22 vote will influence the process
of Hong Kong’s future democracy.
Thus the CCP is very scared, trying all means to destroy it.
The UHK POP is making alternative plans for the vote
after the hacker attack.
If the e-vote system cannot be fixed, they will use the route
under their management, providing ipads for citizens to vote.
They also can extend days, time and other methods for voting.
Xiong Li suggests that UHK POP should seek assistance of
US-based Epoch Times Group, because the Epoch Times
has fixed hacks several times.
Interview/ChenHan Edit/SongFeng Post-Production/GuoJing