Operation Payback and Hactivism 101

Orome1 writes "While individual acts of hacktivism are inconvenient, something else happens when hacktivists group together — they commonly perform a DDoS attack. Techniques have advanced to automate the process, making the attacks more powerful and thus more able to bypass security controls — the effect, however, remains the same. Let us take a look at the recent Operation Payback which has gained notoriety in the past few months."

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Re:This isn't activism

[Pojut]

I don't know about that...Their intentions are sound (preserve freedom of speech), even if their methods are crude. Then again, if no one hates you, you're doing it wrong...so...yeah.