Tech | December 09, 2010 | 36 comments

Anonymous recruits Wikileaks 'data army'

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11957367

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"The data war between companies that have refused to do business with Wikileaks and the online activists keen to defend it is getting more intense.

The tool through which attacks are carried out against websites perceived to be anti-Wikileaks has now been downloaded more than 31,000 times.

Security experts warned people to avoid joining the voluntary botnet.

Targets of the loose-knit group Anonymous have so far included Visa, Mastercard and Paypal.

Amazon is expected to be among firms targeted next using the Anonymous attack tool known as LOIC. When a person installs the tool on their PC it enrols the machine into a voluntary botnet which then bombards target sites with data."


One more excerpt:
"As well as releasing the attack tool, the Anonymous group has also been active in helping to create mirror sites. To date there are over one thousand sites offering exact copies of the content on Wikileaks.

It is also ensuring the information is available on dark nets, heavily encrypted layers of the internet via which information can be extracted while remaining untraceable.

The DDoS attacks are the latest battle in a wider fight known as Operation Payback, which targets firms Anonymous sees as 'misusing the internet' ".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11957367




This is clearly people's implosion against the abuse, the deception, the corruption and the censorship of unconstitutional actions.
What do you think this is going to lead us?

What do you think it is going to happen?
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