Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack?

Even with data caps in place I'm sure one could perform quite a few requests/second continuously for an entire month.

Multiply that by (hundreds of?) thousands of protesters and the logging system could be overwhelmed. Especially considering such a system would likely be badly implemented by the lowest bidder.

Even if it were not overwhelmed, the requests could be tailored to trigger as many false-positives as possible.