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Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines

Posted by Soulskill on from the distributed-denial-of-stationary dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anonymous has claimed responsibility for distributed denial of service attacks against several anti-WikiLeaks websites this month. In a novel twist to the campaign, Mission Leakflood has started a new DDoS attack against fax numbers belonging to Amazon, MasterCard, Moneybookers, PayPal, Visa and Tableau Software. Some numbers have already stopped responding, and Twitter and PostFinance have since been added to the target list."

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  1. A what? by jamesl · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's a Fax Machine?

    1. Re:A what? by pspahn · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a machine that stores, retrieves, and serves Fax. Fax such as "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop" and "how often does Google watch me in the shower?"

      Current forms of Fax Machines are Wikipedia, and Answers.com. They serve their purpose and serve it well. Previous incarnations include the Rosetta Stone, Newpaper Rock, and the Black Monolith. While comparatively primitive by modern standards, these archaic Fax Machines undoubtedly sparked the minds of those who used them.

      Honorable mention goes to Baghdad Bob for keeping faithful to the true heart of Fax Machines, though ultimately his Fax were deemed inaccurate.

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      Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
    2. Re:A what? by makubesu · · Score: 4, Funny

      An additional source of confusion is that Fox uses a Faux machine to generate its stories.

  2. Mommy won't be happy... by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 5, Funny

    when the feds bust down the door to her house because you've been dialing out of her basement.

  3. Well done guys! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You are doing a great job at boosting Wikileaks' credibility as a journalistic endeavor. There is absolutely no risk that the government, lobbied by the businesses you are attacking, will use your actions to convince the public as a whole that it is wise and necessary to introduce new draconian laws against online privacy and freedom.

    Keep it up!

    Yours sincerely, The Man.

    P.S. I know where you live now, and I am going to tell my friends at the RIAA next time you so much as think of touching a torrent. Or maybe I'll tell them you did even if you didn't. Even if you manage to get an unusually intelligent jury, your life will be ruined long before the court finds out the truth. Have fun, kids!

  4. Re:A life lived in fear is a life half lived. by Oxford_Comma_Lover · · Score: 3, Funny

    > You see, when people get busted for smuggling drugs across the country, they generally get hit not because the cop said, he might have drugs, lets search him, but because they are speeding or sampling the merchandise and weaving or driving erratic or something.

    I especially loved the guy who drove a semi full of pot on the cars-only level of the George Washington Bridge.

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    -- IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and definitely isn't legal advice for you. Also, Squee!
  5. Re:Okay that's some funny shit by RMH101 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, if every fax machine started spewing out this cable... http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-single-most-damning-wikileaks-cable