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[Blissey]

Hacker group Anonymous has struck again, this time taking down the Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music.
In twenty minutes, they have managed to take down 10 websites, making it their largest attack to date.


Source:
http://www.slashgear...music-19210145/
http://money.cnn.com...pload_shutdown/

Discuss.

[Yung]

Okay I can give them props for everything they have done up until now... but the Department of Justice? How was that one even possible??

[Jun]

We are lucky neopets isnt in their list

Anyway, if Department of Justice is possible, whats impossible then?

[Asakura]

Are you the real Skrillex?

[Blissey]

Are you the real Skrillex?

No

[Waser Lave]

Okay I can give them props for everything they have done up until now... but the Department of Justice? How was that one even possible??

Presumably they just DDoSed them which isn't particularly complex, it's the equivalent of stuffing your neighbour's letter box full of shit to prevent them receiving any more mail.

[magicc]

DoJ does seem a little overboard but the reasoning behind it is fantastic. It demonstrates how powerful the masses can be when it comes to having strong feelings bout something.

And when it comes to shutting megavideo, I have VERY strong feelings.

[Asakura]

No

Awh

[Irradium]

I love this hacker group. <3

[Crispin]

Makes me wanna headbang to Crush the Industry.

[iargue]

Okay I can give them props for everything they have done up until now... but the Department of Justice? How was that one even possible??

You act like to government is actually intelligent when it comes to computer security.

[Bone]

You are like to government is actually intelligent when it comes to computer security.

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Unseen]

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

No, no one has really even far to go want look more like that, but I know what you are saying. Why would even go as far more like that?

[baby0firefly]

their my hero's

[Kraftwerk]

I need MU back.

Come on MU, if Jesus could, you can resurrect too!

[redlion]

It probably wasn't the DoJs mainframe, just their public site

Citizens don't have access to the DoJ's database of criminal records, for instance. That takes a secure connection. You can't really dos over a secure connection.

The articles don't specifically say that Anon dDoSed them though. Could be any number of attack profiles.

[Elindoril]

The articles don't specifically say that Anon dDoSed them though. Could be any number of attack profiles.

Anonymous is simply taking credit for it, probably.

[redlion]

Anonymous is simply taking credit for it, probably.

Yup. Taking credit for russian spammers' work.

[Scot]

http://gizmodo.com/5...rnet-into-using

Anonymous members are distributing a link that ropes internet users into an illegal DDoS attack against these websites simply by clicking it.

The link is a page on the anonymous web hosting site pastehtml. It link loads a web-based version of the program Anonymous has used for years to DDoS websites: Low Orbit Ion Cannon. (LOIC). LOIC rapidly reloads a target website, and if enough users point LOIC at a site at once, it can crash from the traffic.
LOIC basically turns your computer's network connection into a firehose of garbage requests, directed towards a target web server. On its own, one computer rarely generates enough TCP, UDP, or HTTP requests at once to overwhelm a web server-garbage requests can easily ignored while legit requests for web pages are responded to as normal.

But when thousands of users run LOIC at once, the wave of requests become overwhelming, often shutting a web server (or one of its connected machines, like a database server) down completely, or preventing legitimate requests from being answered.

[Elindoril]

Good ol' Ion Cannon.

[redlion]

[Melchoire]

Okay I can give them props for everything they have done up until now... but the Department of Justice? How was that one even possible??

Several of them were DDoS attacks which most wouldn't really consider "hacking". But a couple of them were legitimate hacks where they defaced the website.

[Achtenveertig]

And yet SOPA and PIPA will still probably get passed.

They managed to get the patriot act through, nothing will surprise me any more.

[Ziz]

[Sage]

I'm actually kind of pissed about this one. Anonymous has been pushing a bit too far and to me they've sort of got the KKK effect going now, where whatever they support looks like the Crazy Asshole Choice...

I just wish they hadn't attacked government sites. Even if those sites don't actually do anything valuable, it's still a big line to cross and the more they do that the more easy it will be to have them labelled as terrorists.