Anonymous attacks WhiteHouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and others

[kpete]

Anonymous attacks WhiteHouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and others
Published: 20 January, 2012, 01:48

Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.

In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.

“It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,” Anonymous operative Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon.

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Less than an hour after the DoJ and Universal sites came down, the website for the RIAA, or Recording Industry Association of America, went offline as well. Shortly before 6 p.m EST, the government's Copyright.gov site went down as well.

more, hmmmmmmmmm:
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sopa-235/

[Fearless]

1. Seems like someone's pissed...

I wonder if they're representative of the majority of Americans point of view. Could be interesting in an election year-- such legislation.

[zonkers]

2. Whoa. Pretty crazy.

[TalkingDog]

3. I'm pretty sure you don't "break" a website.

You can cripple it, disable it, block it, black it out and many, many other things. But breaking implies it needs repair, which would imply changes to the underlying code.

Of course, it was listed in "breaking news" so....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. that irked me too. nt

[arcane1]

4. "Anonymous operative Barrett Brown"

That makes me laugh for some reason

[onpatrol98]

5. LOL...

That is funny!!!

[GodlessBiker]

6. whitehouse.gov appears to be up and running.

[unionworks]

7. expect them n/t

[gateley]

8. Yeah - don't know when it occurred. I haven't cared enough to check the DoJ site. :-) nt

[markpkessinger]

10. And a well-deserved take-down it is n/t