A San Francisco-based iOS software engineer has urged others to refresh “www.whitehouse.gov” as often as possible on Jan. 20 to create rolling distributed denial-of-service attacks. Security experts have opined that DDoS attacks are not likely to be effective, since it’s purely a public-facing, informational website that has nothing to do with the day-to-day running of executive branch operations. A poll by English security researcher Kevin Beaumont found significant disagreement with the proposal. In March 2016, Anonymous declared “total war” against Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate.”]