Posted on 12/08/2010 2:57:31 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Members of Anonymous, in an online chat with AFP, vowed to attack anyone with an "anti-WikiLeaks agenda" and they extended their cyber assaults on Wednesday to the websites of Palin and Lieberman.Palin has described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands" and asked "Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?"
Her website, SarahPac.com, came under cyber attack from a "small group of Anonymous protestors," according to Sean-Paul Carroll, a threat researcher at PandaLabs, the malware detection laboratory of Panda Security.
Carroll said the Palin website went down for about six minutes.
According to ABC News, besides attacking the Palin website, the hackers also "disrupted" the personal credit card accounts of Palin and her husband, Todd.
"No wonder others are keeping silent about Assange's antics," ABC News quoted Palin as saying in an email.
"This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts."
Carroll said Anonymous members also briefly took down the website of Senator Lieberman, who issued an early call for US companies to withdraw their technical support from WikiLeaks, an appeal which has been widely followed.
In addition to Visa and Mastercard, Anonymous has already taken credit for temporarily taking down the websites of PayPal, the Swiss Post Office bank and others with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Used IRC for years. It was one of the original “social networks”.
When they start messing with credit card companies, PayPal and soon, Banks, THAT is when something will be done. $$$ talks. It’s one to go after a convenient whipping-boy like Sarah Palin, the USA, the US military, George Bush etc, it’s another thing when the financial industry is targeted.
They also attacked Master Card. I think they are playing with fire and making a lot of powerful enemies.
And I said taking down both VISA and Mastercard affects anyone who has accounts with both companies.
They’re playing with fire and creating less freedom and not more. Those in power will use these attacks to impose censorship, curb online freedom and limit free speech.
every moonbat in the world is coming out in support of this Julian twit. Hang him.
Yes, those that have that goal will try it.
Those Wiki Freaks are cyber terrorists......Hope Sarah has some sort of credit monitoring so when one of these weenies tries to use her card they get BUSTED!
Yep. Hang him.
Spine of steel and more guts than all the rhinos put together. A role model for everyone. Looks like she will leave the 2012 GOP boys playing in her dust.
Will they bring charges against the anarchists for the cyber attack on her?
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You’re precisely right about her!
I’ve been knocked off line for the past hour or more - DSL/ATT &T connection gone awry and I come back to this!
I don’t expect this administration will do jack crap about bringing charges against thw wiki-terrorist for doing anything against #45.
That’s a “make may day look.”
They’ll be found...and stopped...
We could catch ‘em and put ‘em in Guantanamo as enemy combatants. Or they can mysteriously have car accidents. In many countries, who would know who actually did the job.
Manning indeed should be punished to the full extent, however, he is the scapegoat. Soon or later it will become evident that the Obama/Soros administration is behind Wikileaks.
Setting up a protest site in support of Assange in one thing, but deliberately committing a felony is quite something else.
Most hackers think they're this.
When they're really this.
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