Posted on 01/19/2012 3:19:57 PM PST by maggief
Anonymous, the group of activist hackers, claimed to have crashed the Justice Department website on Thursday in retaliation for prosecutors shutting down the popular file-sharing site Megaupload.com.
"The government takes down Megaupload? 15 minutes later Anonymous takes down government & record label sites," the group wrote on its Twitter account.
A Justice Department spokesman did not confirm whether the agency had suffered a cyber attack, but justice.gov was not loading as of Thursday afternoon.
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Testing, Testing, Testing, remember the generated crisis they have answers for? They will blame it on home grown terrorists and we all know who they are!
Just checking. Could be a brain tumor, or blunt force trauma to the head. Sounds like you're OK. ;)
Thats the truth. SOmething tells me that the whole Occupy movement and this Anonymous is all linked and supported through some soros foundation.
That man ought to be stripped of citizenship and kicked out of our country.
You might be right.
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AmberLyon Amber Lyon CNN
by YourAnonNews
Working on story now RT: @johncsmith88 “why isn’t CNN talking about the hacks? The world cares more about it than newt ducking Gingrich”
24 minutes ago
Get in there and find those Fast and Furious documents Eric WithHolder is hiding!
FedGov got it's butt completely thrashed in the matter of a few hours.
/johnny
Occupy? I have no idea.
But I'm good with getting rid of Nazi collaborator Soros.
What REALLY bothers me is how stupidly and incompetently vulnerable parts of our government are.
They took down a web site (which is back up) after a lawful protest yesterday, and got hit within 30 minutes and is still down.
Doesn't say much about the competence of the FedGov. Perhaps if they would stick to their Constitutional role, these kinds of public embarassments wouldn't happen.
/johnny
TheJusticeDept The Justice Dept
by YourAnonNews
The department is working to ensure the website is available while we investigate the origins of this activity...
48 minutes ago
YourAnonNews Anonymous
FBI.COM IS TANGO DOWN. #EXPECTUS
45 seconds ago
Ummmm, FBI.GOV is down, hard:
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrievedWhile trying to retrieve the requested URL the following error was encountered:
* Unable to forward this request at this time.
The replacement Mega site is still up.
The Federal Government is looking more incompetent than even I thought possible. If they would just stick with the Constitution, this kind of stuff wouldn't happen to embarass them, and embolden our real enemies.
/johnny
FBI.Gov is down.
The blow back from this will be bad. This is handing the fedgov a reason to put the kill switch in place.
And they can. It will take time and effort, but they can.
Thanks maggief.
They can TRY. Of course.
But they cannot succeed. Shutting down the internet today shuts the country down. There will be riots. You will see blood in the streets within 24 hours.
They know better than to do that.
I 100% agree. But it will be tried because no state wants the flow of information to be uncontrolled.
As Internet pioneer John Gilmore put it:"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
The FedGov is still down.
Granted, I'm only a cook these days, but if I was admin for the government, I'd move the websites to other IP address (and they have plenty) and do a DNS push with a short life on it to repoint at the new addresses.
After all, they hold the high ground (DNS servers). They just don't know what to do with it.
Like a monkey fornicating a football.
/johnny
Read my tag line.
Can you think of a faster more effective way to unite Americans against the FedMob than to have them shut off interwebs access?
Yep. Well, in fairness, only -parts- of it are still down. They're getting things going again.
> Granted, I'm only a cook these days, but if I was admin for the government,...
I'm the Director of Sysadmin for an international software company. I'm watching this with a weird mixture of glee and horror. :)
> ... I'd move the websites to other IP address (and they have plenty) and do a DNS push with a short life on it to repoint at the new addresses.
Yep. Although it's also just plain embarrassing that they can't rouse the raw horsepower to just withstand the attack. Not that they should have it turned on all the time. But my god, don't they know how to distribute and manage an overload?
> After all, they hold the high ground (DNS servers). They just don't know what to do with it.
Ex-zactly.
> Like a monkey fornicating a football.
Wow, thanks for that image..... yes, exactly!!
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