"Operation Payback" - Possibly the first cyber war

[DrenDran]

How is it the "first cyber war" things like this have been happening for almost a decade.

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[Wedge]

First cyber war, if you don't count the Russian attack on Estonian servers several years ago, websites being attacked on all sides during the South Ossetian conflict, all of the bullstuff coming out of China that may or may not be connected to the Chinese government but probably is, and the stuxnet virus where 60% of all infections globally were reported in Iran.

[Feep]

Even if someone on here is an anon, why would they admit it?
being anonymous is what anon does best.

[D3ATH]

First cyber war, if you don't count the Russian attack on Estonian servers several years ago

Many of these attacks came from Russian government facilities. All that because of relocating their communistic statue-grave to cemetery.

[Rainbow]

They should still be jailed for pulling this bullstuff.

BUT THEYRE ANONYMOUS THEY CANNOT BE FOUDN11!!!!1!!!

[oleg662]

This is actually why my dad is thinking of starting up a career in cyber-security.

YOU DUN GOOFED UP! I AM REPORTING YOU TO THE LOCAL POLICE, THE STATE POLICE, AND THE CYBER POLICE! IF YOU HURT MY DAUGHTER AGAIN, CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!!!
/dadrageingonyoutube,lookitup.
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[DrenDran]

They should still be jailed for pulling this bullstuff.

1. Very few people have ever been jailed for this.
2. In reality it's not really enough to constitute jailing, even if the actual law says different.
3. They are acting in groups of probably a few thousand, which means it's very hard to single people out.

[Mr.Interceptor]

They are acting in groups of probably a few thousand, which means it's very hard to single people out.

Giant DDoSing orgies.

[_Rave_]

China's is supposedly globally hacking.

I wouldn't doubt that stuff.

[Bloody Mary]

It's really too bad that the 4chan kids will get tired of this, and give up.

[Moriarty]

Even if someone on here is an anon, why would they admit it?
being anonymous is what anon does best.

yeah seriously

[TheChaosCarrier]

good thing blockland.us isn't a law firm...

[zackin5]

Now they're switching to just distributing the leaks documents all over the internet.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101211/tc_nm/us_wikileaks_activists_strategy

LONDON (Reuters) – A loose grouping of cyber activists supporting WikiLeaks has abandoned its strategy of online attacks on organizations seen as hostile to the site in favor of spreading the leaked documents far and wide online.

Internet activists operating under the name "Anonymous" temporarily brought down this week the websites of credit card giants MasterCard and Visa -- both of which had stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks.

The United States, enraged and embarrassed by WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, has leant on organizations from Amazon to online payments service PayPal -- which have now withdrawn services to WikiLeaks.

In an overnight blog post, Anonymous announced a change of strategy, saying it now aimed to publish parts of the confidential U.S. diplomatic cables as widely as possible and in ways that made them as hard as possible to trace.

The cyber activists briefly brought down PayPal's official blog by bombarding it with requests this week but failed to harm retail and Web-hosting giant Amazon, which withdrew its services to WikiLeaks more than a week ago.

"We have, at best, given them a black eye. The game has changed. When the game changes, so too must our strategies," said the blog post announcing "Operation: Leakspin."

The activists are now encouraging supporters to search through leaked cables on the WikiLeaks site and publish summaries of ones that have been least exposed, labeling them so they are hard to find by any authority seeking to quash them.

"Use misleading tags, everything from "Tea Party" to "Bieber." Post snippets of the leaks everywhere," the blog said, referring to the U.S. grassroots conservative movement and the 16-year-old Canadian pop phenomenon Justin Bieber.

Similar strategies have been used in the past on YouTube and the now defunct Napster by users seeking to share video and music while dodging copyright crackdowns.

The activists had previously been using denial of service attacks, in which they bombarded the Web servers of the perceived enemies of WikiLeaks with requests that crashed the sites, in an operation named "Operation Payback."

[yuki]

and there is no such thing as a 4chan-elite. they flaunt how they are anonymous, therefore they dont have rank or importance.

Anonymous, like it or not, has a hierarchy de facto.

[_Rave_]

I actually like Anonymous, because it gives people the feeling that the general population still has power.

Now of course, DDoS-ing a website isn't power, but it shows that people working together have power.

Militia :P