Posted on 03/29/2012 1:50:56 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
The computer hacking group Anonymous has promised to shut down the Internet in its entirety this Saturday, March 31st, according to a post on "pastebin" which has since gotten 165,000 views. The piece states that Anonymous will be attempting this in order to protest "SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun."
The post, which was then uploaded to Reddit, promises an attack on 13 root DNS servers. Anyone trying to access a website, it promises, will get an error message. The group, however, states that their action is not to "kill" the internet, but make a point.
How long the "blackout," as the post calls it, will last is unknown even to the hackers: "The very fact that nobody will be able to make new requests to use the Internet will slow down those who will try to stop the attack. It may only lasts one hour, maybe more, maybe even a few days. No matter what, it will be global. It will be known."
Members of Reddit have given the post over 1,000 "upvotes" at the time of this article, and the number is expected to grow. Under comments, Reddit users are arguing about whether this could actually work. The top comment reads, "Good luck with that...," with the second highest reading, in part, "I do wish them the best, simply for the fact that it would be historic and entertaining."
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Well, I guess I’ll do some yard work.
So they are ter rorists. The Obama regime is also a ter rorist organisation for its efforts in shutting down portions of the internet. I’m for sending them all to Gitmo, putting the food and tents in the middle of a stadium complex and arming both sides with swords and let them fight over the survival supplies.
F’em all.
Nah, just send ‘em to me. I really don’t want the public at large to see what I would with these a**holes. Grown men would cry, women would scream, little children would tremble...
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This may not be a bad thing. Maybe I can get my kid off the computer long enough to mow the lawn. :)
And televise it and youtube it.
Gahhhh!
It is difficult enough to stay connected when the local yahoos at the cable company are playing with the lines.
The last thing we need is a bunch of Anonymous Hackers trying to interrupt things.
OK, I'm in. My phone number is BR549.
It would be an act of terrorism. People could die.
It’s not completely preposterous. Couple of years ago a guy discovered a hole in internet security that if exploited actually could have shut down the whole internet. A patch was put out very quietly within a day.
Just an FYI:
Anyone wanting to know what these geniouses are up to, just read the William Gibson/Neuromancer and Bruce Sterling books. They are wannabee cyberpunks with some actual skill.
But they are following the ethos in those books to the letter. The Alt2600 and Mondo 2000 archives also shed light on their thought process.
I think this is the story I was thinking about:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/08/revealed-the-in/
“The post, which was then uploaded to Reddit, promises an attack on 13 root DNS servers. Anyone trying to access a website, it promises, will get an error message.”
No, they won’t. The effects would be extremely rare for hours (you’d be reading about it on FR before you actually saw an error yourself), then would grow slowly over a period of day IF NO ONE DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT (and by doing something about it, I’m not saying they even have to fix THOSE servers, we’d just need a “few” backend providers to take action).
Hmmm... Seeing as how the internet was originally designed to survive a nuclear war, I’ll be interested in the results.
It’s time to turn “Mitch Rapp” loose on these guys.
That’s too bad. I am planning on shooting lightning bolts out my arse on Saturday and streaming it live on the internet. Sorry you’re all going to miss it!
I’m not concerned. AT&T does it several times a week at my house.
If you can manage to take down all the root DNS machines it’ll work. The “surviving nuclear war” thing was basically just having multiple DNS geographically separated and figuring they wouldn’t all get nuked. A web based attack doesn’t have that problem, geographical separation is meaningless. But you still gotta knock them all down for it to work.
Oh yeah. I’d definitely throw these Anonymous a-holes in with the muslim killers and let them wish they hadn’t hated civilization so much when their cellmates make them pretend to be goats.
ML/NJ
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