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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/johnny
appreciating your posts on this thread, thanks
No. But I never believe that the Fedgov will act in a rational manner.
Insult the king enough, and he will react.
So it reacted.
And got punched in the snoot by some hotheads.
Doesn't say much about the competence of FedGov.
Perhaps if they would move back to a Constitutional role, these kinds of things wouldn't happen.
/johnny
And you do know I don't try to be entertaining. Stuff just seems to happen when I'm around. ;)
BTW, I'm finally building that trebuchet.
/johnny
Well, I don’t expect rationality either but I kind of hope they do shut it down. The motivation is a little shallow but I would expect protests that dwarf the TEA Parties, OWS and SEIU-ACORN combined and include them all plus all the couch potatoes who have never protested anything before.
Yes, that's the bottom line.
We pay those SOBs to run a government which does what the Constitution says it should do, does NOT do what the Constitution says it should NOT do, and from time to time with great care and caution, adjusts what the Constitution says about DO and DO NOT, to make corrections or allow for the legitimate growth of civilization.
We do NOT pay them to ignore the Constitution for the most part, and then write avalanches of end-runs around it with thousands of laws that either ignore their Constitutional duties, or make every freakin' thing illegal.
Ooooooh, there will come a Day of Reckoning....
If they wanted to get to Holder, instead of just crashing the site, how about forwarding Holder’s entire email history to Darryl Issa? THAT would have him emptying his colon in a heartbeat.
Aw, shucks, we're just havin' ourselves a good time, couple of old geezers (I just turned 60, I'm guessin' about JRandom).
I first heard the term "J. Random" (as in "J. Random Hacker") around 1970 at MIT. It became a standard part of my and my wife's vocabulary, along with the metasyntactic variables "foo", "bar", and other terms like "frob" (to tweak a knob in a random manner) and of course "hacker" itself, a term of acknowledgment of skill and coolness...
I think "JRandomFreeper" is one of the best handles I've seen here. :)
“You can’t stop the signal Mel.”
Speak for yourself. ;)
Although I do have a box of 8" SSSD floppies with CPM programs on them. And was on the email list for the original JPEG standards group.
/johnny
Actually, they aren't technically crashing the site, in the sense of hacking in and taking control. They are doing a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. It's like having a million people ask you a question ever second.
The servers are just fine, but may need some overtime pay, new fans, and a short vacation when this is over.
But I sure would like to see Holder's email history. And you are correct. It would be high-colonic time at the Holder household.
/johnny
Wow. Educational and entertaining.
snicker... loving it.
Now that would be hilarious!
Hack the planet... not world.
Like I said on another thread, the Internet has profoundly changed the way people work, relate to each other and even think. Anyone who REALLY tries to mess with it will find things getting ugly. “Fourth Turning”-level ugly.
And Holder declares that racists and tea partiers are behind it. /s
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