‘Anonymous’ Launches Operation Avenge Assange
Hacker coalition Anonymous has launched a slew of cyber assaults against what it perceives to be enemies of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including a DDoS attack on PayPal, which recently stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks in the wake of the release of U.S. embassy cables.
Anonymous said it will “offer Wikileaks an additional mirror and have it Googlebombed” and “create counter-propaganda, organized attacks (DDoS) on various targets related to censorship.” The group also encourage its members and supporters to spread the cables freely: “The end goal is a human DNS – something that can only be stopped by shutting off the entire internet,”‘ the collective stated on a poster.
The group also encouraged voting for Assange as the TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year, to give the exiled Australian “much needed public exposure,” and threatened ramifications for opponents of the whistle-blower organization.
“We will find and will attack those who stand against Wikileaks and we will support WikiLeaks in everything they need,” the collective said.
At the time of writing, the Anonymous website was inaccessible and a message displayed said, “AnonOps is currently under heavy DDoS attack. The website will be back up ASAP.”
The Guardian reported earlier this morning Assange had been arrested over allegations in Sweden of sexual offenses.
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I got here via Google News, and I have to say this article is fail. “Anonymous” isn’t a hacker group, it’s the name of the users of the forum “4chan”, notorious on the internet for its pornographic content and the so-called “trolling”(intentionally trying to get a negative response by things like game trolling), and I, even though I agree with quite some of their political ideals including this one, am glad to say I haven’t posted a single thing there.
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Decimae is right. As far as I know, they are internet activists. I guess DDoS is the online version of calling for a strike in protest or something. Nothing I read mentions that they hack anything.
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Actually, DDoS is a Denial of Service attack. Anonymous is currently under DDoS to stop them, but Anonymous is probably the best group in the world for it, and this is hacking. I believe they took down the Australian Prime Ministers website in protest against Australian Internet Laws. They are also the ones behind the Youtube porn day, which was hilarious might I add.
“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people”
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