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WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the world-war-something-or-other dept.

healeyb writes "CNN is announcing that, starting at 11 AM EST, the hackers (coined Operation Payback) responsible for the DDoS attacks on MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and PostFinance have promised to commence an attack against Amazon for their revocation of the WikiLeaks EC2 account. They released a do-it-yourself hacking tool online Thursday so other people can help with the attacks they say took down the websites of MasterCard and Visa..."

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  1. Re:M.A.D. by Haeleth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Then governments will get DDOSed.

    First they came for the leakers, and I did not speak out, because I was not a leaker.

    Then they came for the script kiddies, and I did not speak out, because I was not a script kiddie.

    Then they stopped, because nobody else was attacking them. And the world was a better place without all those script kiddies clogging up the tubes.

    Sounds good to me. Let's do this!