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Anonymous attacks WhiteHouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and others
Anonymous attacks WhiteHouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and othersPublished: 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 todays 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/
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Anonymous attacks WhiteHouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and others (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2012
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Fearless
(18,421 posts)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
(5,865 posts)2. Whoa. Pretty crazy.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)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
(28,791 posts)9. that irked me too. nt
arcane1
(38,613 posts)4. "Anonymous operative Barrett Brown"
That makes me laugh for some reason
That is funny!!!
GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)6. whitehouse.gov appears to be up and running.
unionworks
(3,574 posts)7. expect them n/t
gateley
(62,683 posts)8. Yeah - don't know when it occurred. I haven't cared enough to check the DoJ site. :-) nt
markpkessinger
(8,392 posts)10. And a well-deserved take-down it is n/t