Fox News: Anonymous retaliates for Megaupload shutdown
Submitted by the clover helix on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 22:56Agree or disagree with their methods, they've got some serious convictions (and talent) to pull this off...
"Hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous have claimed responsibility for taking down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group, in retaliation for charges levied earlier Thursday against content-sharing site Megaupload.com.
Both Universalmusic.com and Justice.gov crashed Thursday afternoon and remained down as of 6:50pm ET.
The group also said it brought down the websites of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the US Copyright Office and the Utah Chiefs of Police Association."
The rest of the article is at the following link:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/19/anonymous-hackers-...
Cyber Tea Party?
Cyber Tea Party?
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I think you're right.
What I saw on twitter last night was eye-opening. I was only on for about 30 minutes or so and @YourAnonNews gained over 30,000 followers in that time. The tweets for #OpMegaUpload were over 1,600 per minute and it was trending worldwide. It definitely got the stop SOPA message to the masses if nothing else! Hopefully all the congressmen have full inboxes and voicemails this morning.
I think the "real" anonymous
I think the "real" anonymous is against hacking sites - that is equivalent to a property right violation.
Anonymous has been blamed for the SONY and other hack-jobs but this is against the Anonymous platform.
Last night Anon reported
that they weren't hacking any sites, just overloading and crashing servers. Just what I read on twitter.
That's the very problem isn't it?
Being anonymous means there's no way to distinguish the "real" members from poseurs, infiltrators, and agents provocateur. They can be whatever anybody with the resources to imitate them wants to portray them as - that is a problem. For them (assuming there is a real "them") but more importantly for us: we who would become the victims of the crackdown which the government could justify on the basis of attacks committed by "Anonymous."
why is it a problem?
anonymous just says, dont know what you're talking about . . . . PROVE IT with data!
If you cant tell the difference between anonymous and another, how does anyone know THEY actually did anything?
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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I can't decide....
...are they real resistance or cointelpro? The benefit of a free internet is the kind of thing we do here, communicate - not hacking attacks (which ultimately are just a nuisance, governments won't fall because of hacking, they will fall b/c of informed citizenry telling them to get F-ed.). Sooo, what I'm thinking is, why do they do this? Aren't they giving the government justification to regulate the internet, on a silver platter?
What do you think?
makes some sense....
food for thought.
Maybe that's their only tool? When all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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When they came out supporting
When they came out supporting Julian Assange, I began to suspect it was cointelpro, and hacking the DOJ or DOD is what I'd suspect from the government. It helps promote the laws they want to pass.