New "Operation Payback" target - PayPal

[MelissaB]

and it's already down.

[Teaser]

1. still up here.

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[MelissaB]

2. Seems to be back.

They said they would start about 10:00, but it went down a little early. I think somebody must be trigger happy.

[godai]

3. I could not connect. n/t

[Teaser]

4. it's slowing down

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[MelissaB]

6. This is fascinating to me, and this is the first time I've watched

them try to take a site down. I wonder how long it will take if they are successful.

[Sabriel]

5. Hey, let's all check if we can access it.

Nope. Not yet. Nope, not now. Nope....

[godai]

7. It's a big deal if paypal goes down for an extended period.

You don't walk in a store and use paypal. It's all internet eg ebay.

[TNLib]

8. I can't access it

I think the feds officially woke the sleeping dragon. They need to let this die out on it's own and they need to stop trying to stop this. By fucking around with 4chan and twitter facebook ect.. they're just escalating this. All they are doing is embolding Anon and creating more Anon hacker wanna bees.

[Pavulon]

12. Like the one here in NC who was arrested and is sitting in minnesota on felony

charges. Terrorism charges, he is fucked for life. Let them go fuck with banks and critical systems.

Rich white kids can go to jail too.

[itsrobert]

9. I'm in

had to type the whole url http://www.paypal.com paypal.com timed out on me.

[AlabamaLibrul]

10. It's not just you! http://paypal.com looks down from here. n/t

[Toucano]

11. It's down as of right now.

I'm a bit impressed...I'm a bit surprised it's so easy...I'm surprised by the apparent restraint hackers have maintained up to now.

Wow!

[Pavulon]

14. its up here and DDOS is not hacking any more than your 4 year old's

finger paintings belong in the Met.

[Teaser]

15. the battle for the word "hacking" was lost long ago.

it means what people use it to mean. DDoS counts.

[Pavulon]

18. That is truly sad. getting IOS to give you priv15

used to be hacking. Finding something useful to do with that was more interesting. Seriously, DDOS from a bunch of zombies is not a hack.

A redirection would be a kinda hack. It would be a sweet redirect all the wiki mirrors to rape crisis prevention centers.

Hacks should involve humor, or straight theft of things that turn to cash.

[Teaser]

21. a function of more hackers going into security

corporate systems are harder these days.

but this is 4chan doing this. Some of them are really talented "hackers" in the old school sense. But many are just regular joes with access to a botnet.

I suppose the trick is installing the botnet on all the zombie computers. That may take some skillz.

I'm old, and being 31337 is a game for the young anyway.

[Pavulon]

23. Old guys know how to get shit done. Route switch

are the keys to the kingdom. shit you even have the phones now. All runs on IOS.

[AlabamaLibrul]

16. .

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[Pavulon]

19. go post your external IP in /b with a picture of a dead cat, get back to me

after you call you ISP and get them to turn you service back on.

[AlabamaLibrul]

20. .

[Pavulon]

22. inndeed (think omar little)

[Toucano]

17. Still down here...n/t

[roody]

13. I only use it for Ebay. I am glad to not be spending.