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[supertrap]

Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline

The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
Tango down," a member of Anonymous said on @YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. "Tango down" is an expression used by the US Special Forces when they have eliminated an enemy.

Asked about the apparent website outage, a CIA spokeswoman said: "We are aware of the problems accessing our web site, and are working to resolve them."

The website was restored shortly thereafter.

Members of Anonymous also claimed Friday to have hacked the website of Camimex, the Mexican chamber of mines, and posted emails taken from the site online.

The camimex.org.mx site was unavailable on Friday.

Anonymous last month briefly knocked the websites of the US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation offline.

Those attacks were in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.

There was no immediate explanation from Anonymous for the targeting of the CIA site.

In June, an Anonymous-affiliated group, Lulz Security, also temporarily disabled the CIA website.


Most Anonymous cyberattacks are distributed denial of service attacks in which a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers.

Oh and hi joe and his mindless group of retards. I know your there, and I know you want to respond to my post out of context. But before you lower your respectability even more, just this time walk away. The people need to know. Thanks!

Edited by supertrap, 11 February 2012 - 08:17 AM.

[Sweeney]

So?

[Nonexistent]

So?

Lol

[supertrap]

Yup not in the slightest bit interesting.

Lets all go discuss chimp intelligence.


Incase you forgot, Sweeney is not your real name, joe is. And I pleaded for joe not too post to avoid immature drama. But I guess your internet alter ego has taken the controls and joe is dead.

Edited by supertrap, 11 February 2012 - 08:22 AM.

[WharfRat]

Yup not in the slightest bit interesting.

Lets all go discuss chimp intelligence.


Incase you forgot, Sweeney is not your real name, joe is. And I pleaded for joe not too post to avoid immature drama. But I guess your internet alter ego has taken the controls and joe is dead.

Pretty simple to see that you edited your post 10 minutes ago and Joe posted 12 minutes ago... Nice try.

And yes, those /b/ morons are "taking down" servers that host the CIA/FBI/DoJ website through DoS attacks. It's really no huge feat... Any server can only handle so many requests. They didn't "hack" anything. There has been no information lost from the servers to these individuals. It's all a publicity stunt and it's a really idiotic one at that. We're all concerned about things like online privacy and these anti-piracy bills, but do you think the government, or the idiots in congress, know that these DoS attacks are harmless? Do you think they are more or less likely to attempt to control and regulate the internet with an iron fist with occurrences such as these?

These attacks are childish and moronic and really are not worth the time of anyone. I hope the government finds these idiots and puts them in jail for stupidity to prevent them from breeding.

[Waser Lave]

These attacks are childish and moronic and really are not worth the time of anyone. I hope the government finds these idiots and puts them in jail for stupidity to prevent them from breeding.

^ This. It's not difficult to take down a website through DDoS attacks if you've got enough stupid people to run the software or you have access to a botnet.

[supertrap]

Pretty simple to see that you edited your post 10 minutes ago and Joe posted 12 minutes ago... Nice try.

And yes, those /b/ morons are "taking down" servers that host the CIA/FBI/DoJ website through DoS attacks. It's really no huge feat... Any server can only handle so many requests. They didn't "hack" anything. There has been no information lost from the servers to these individuals. It's all a publicity stunt and it's a really idiotic one at that. We're all concerned about things like online privacy and these anti-piracy bills, but do you think the government, or the idiots in congress, know that these DoS attacks are harmless? Do you think they are more or less likely to attempt to control and regulate the internet with an iron fist with occurrences such as these?

These attacks are childish and moronic and really are not worth the time of anyone. I hope the government finds these idiots and puts them in jail for stupidity to prevent them from breeding.

You used to be cool. What happened? You should start doing drugs again to save your personality

I never said the attack was cool, just passing along news.
and I didn't edit the last part, that part was on the first edit, 10 seconds after I posted. Im sure staff can confirm.

[Rainie]

I never said the attack was cool, just passing along news.

You didn't specifically say that, but by posting this and writing that "The people need to know" you were implying that the news would be important/interesting

Spoiler

Also, your spelling and grammar is atrocious.

[Sweeney]

Also, your spelling and grammar is atrocious.

*Are atrocious?

[Drakonid]

First thing I though about.

[WharfRat]

You used to be cool. What happened? You should start doing drugs again to save your personality

I never said the attack was cool, just passing along news.
and I didn't edit the last part, that part was on the first edit, 10 seconds after I posted. Im sure staff can confirm.

Your join date: Oct. 2011
My sobriety date: Sept. 2008



As to your claim of "just passing along news"... My point is that this is not news. To the uninformed in America, they will scream and freak out that some hackers took down the CIA when in reality some idiots ran a program that refreshed the CIA's website enough times for the WEBSITE to go offline. The problem with this being news is that our lawmakers unfortuantely fall into the category of those idiots who will hear some hackers took down the CIA over online piracy and will naturally respond with the same idiotic fervor that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq. Except this time, we are the "jihadists" who will feel the wrath of the American government.

By passing this along and making this seem like "news" you are further propagating this story as if it is important and thus promoting these morons to continue their antics.

EDIT: Damn, the person above me must have been thinking the same thing I was. Yay XKCD!

[supertrap]

You didn't specifically say that, but by posting this and writing that "The people need to know" you were implying that the news would be important/interesting

Spoiler

Also, your spelling and grammar is atrocious.

Are you serious? maybe you should learn some grammar yourself before you insult others.

[luvsmyncis]

So it's not hard to take down a website... would it be harder to post a picture of Justin Bieber without a shirt on the homepage of the CIA? Should I be impressed if that were to happen?

[Sweeney]

So it's not hard to take down a website... would it be harder to post a picture of Justin Bieber without a shirt on the homepage of the CIA? Should I be impressed if that were to happen?

Yes, that would be interesting.
Although still nothing like "hacking the CIA".

[Waser Lave]

So it's not hard to take down a website... would it be harder to post a picture of Justin Bieber without a shirt on the homepage of the CIA? Should I be impressed if that were to happen?

That would involve actually compromising the server somehow which you need some skills to do so yeah that would be much harder than getting a bunch of kids together to run some DDoS software.

[WharfRat]

So it's not hard to take down a website... would it be harder to post a picture of Justin Bieber without a shirt on the homepage of the CIA? Should I be impressed if that were to happen?

Yes, that would be harder. That would require someone actually gain access and have the ability to write a file onto their server. What their currently doing is literally just having thousands of idiots run a program that essentially just refreshes the homepage so many times that it crashes. Not impressive and certainly not "hacking."

EDIT: Damn Joe and Waser! Too quick for my long-winded posts!

[supertrap]

Your join date: Oct. 2011
My sobriety date: Sept. 2008



As to your claim of "just passing along news"... My point is that this is not news. To the uninformed in America, they will scream and freak out that some hackers took down the CIA when in reality some idiots ran a program that refreshed the CIA's website enough times for the WEBSITE to go offline. The problem with this being news is that our lawmakers unfortuantely fall into the category of those idiots who will hear some hackers took down the CIA over online piracy and will naturally respond with the same idiotic fervor that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq. Except this time, we are the jihadists who will feel the wrath of the American government.

By passing this along and making this seem like "news" you are further propagating this story as if it is important and thus promoting this morons to continue their antics.

Ya lets not tell anyone about 9/11. We don't want them to think we support it!

Just because you pass news along doesn't mean you support it. and the "people need to know" comment was sarcasm.


But as Sweeney said in my other topic. This is pointless shit, so no need to discuss.

[WharfRat]

Ya lets not tell anyone about 9/11. We don't want them to think we support it!

Just because you pass news along doesn't mean you support it. and the "people need to know" comment was sarcasm.


But as Sweeney said in my other topic. This is pointless shit, so no need to discuss.

OP admits topic is useless. Reason enough for the topic to be closed?

[Sweeney]

OP admits topic is useless. Reason enough for the topic to be closed?

Now, just because a baby throws his toys out of the pram, that's no reason the rest of us can't enjoy them.

[supertrap]

Yes, that would be harder. That would require someone actually gain access and have the ability to write a file onto their server. What their currently doing is literally just having thousands of idiots run a program that essentially just refreshes the homepage so many times that it crashes. Not impressive and certainly not "hacking."

EDIT: Damn Joe and Waser! Too quick for my long-winded posts!

If its not news, and its pointless like you and Sweeney said, then why bother discussing It?
Now this reply is not meant to further our drama. Simply trying to say that this topic could have gone on nicley about how immature the "hackers" are and what would be more effective. Didn''t need the drama to start with. Now I know I could have made the topic without my little bit to Sweeney. But he has shown that he refuses to play nice, and discredits the need for any thread I post, regardless of the topic. So I am asking. Please, if I honestly bother you that much then just leave me be. Or you could possibly stop being such narrow minded fucks and give me a chance. If I remember correctly, the starts of our problems were a misunderstanding, and in my anger at my posts taken out of context, showed my extream stubbornness. I did infact do nothing to help the situation, but sense then have made no aggressive remarks unless provoked first. Tho the fault can be debated, I have not been given an opportunity to redeem myself becasue EVERY thread I post, Sweeney has to start shit with me. This puts a toll on someones patients. My grammar was even insulted by someone who made a grammatical error.(just a recent example) Why all the hate?

Tho I am obviously setting myself to be insulted and burned, I apologize for any problems I caused and ask that all of you who have limited idea of who I am, hold off your judgment of me until you have a better idea of who I am.

There are still members of this forum I enjoy.

Edited by supertrap, 11 February 2012 - 09:19 AM.

[DAFF]

Damn flatbears man, hacking CIA!

[supertrap]

OP admits topic is useless. Reason enough for the topic to be closed?

Then why are you still posting? Obviously its not completly pointless otherwise there would only be talk about the drama.
THis is what Im talking about. It was obvious I was being sarcastic, why do you insist on taking it out of context.
Its like you make it impossible to get along.

Edited by supertrap, 11 February 2012 - 09:15 AM.

[Drakonid]

If its not news, and its pointless like you and Sweeney said, then why bother discussing It?
Now this reply is not meant to further our drama. Simply trying to say that this topic could have gone on nicley about how immature the "hackers" are and what would be more effective. Didn''t need the drama to start with. Now I know I could have made the topic without my little bit to Sweeney. But he has shown that he refuses to play nice, and discredits the need for any thread I post, regardless of the topic. So I am asking. Please, if I honestly bother you that much then just leave me be. Or you could possibly stop being such narrow minded fucks and give me a chance. If I remember correctly, the starts of our problems were a misunderstanding, and in my anger at my posts taken out of context, showed my extream stubbornness. I did infact do nothing to help the situation, but sense then have made no aggressive remarks unless provoked first.

Tho I am obviously setting myself to be insulted and burned, I apologize for any problems I caused and ask that all of you who have limited idea of who I am, hold off your judgment of me until you have a better idea of who I am.

There are still members of this forum I enjoy.

My eyes., they burn.

[Sweeney]

I just want to remind everyone that all I posted was "So?", before the OP edited his first post to include "Oh and hi joe and his mindless group of retards. I know your there, and I know you want to respond to my post out of context. But before you lower your respectability even more, just this time walk away. The people need to know. Thanks!".

Just so we're clear.

[luvsmyncis]

If responses you don't like bother you that much, you can always ignore them. Sheesh. Instead of victimizing yourself, you can just move on.
Sweeney's first post in here was "So?" I mean... maybe it's a little irritating, but it was just one word you could have just scrolled past.