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Why Anonymous Can't Take Down Amazon.com

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-imagine dept.

suraj.sun writes "The website-attacking group 'Anonymous' tried and failed to take down Amazon.com on Thursday. The group's vengeance horde quickly found out something techies have known for years: Amazon, which has built one of the world's most invincible websites, is almost impossible to crash.... Anonymous quickly figured that out. Less than an hour after setting its sights on Amazon, the group's organizers called off the attempt. 'We don't have enough forces,' they tweeted."

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  1. FFS by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well done anonymous, you've just handed Amazon their marketing for their hosting services for the considerable future.

    And even if you haven't, there's still a ton of suited fatcats chortling merrily about the concomitant stock price rise as they stuff their faces with expensive food and drink this holiday season.

    Y'all better step it up, or this might be your Waterloo.

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    1. Re:FFS by tuffy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Have these guys ever disrupted any company significantly? TFA mentions they've taken down the RIAA, MPAA and Mastercard front pages, but none of those have affected their core businesses. It seems like in order to have a Waterloo, they would first need to have some real accomplishments beforehand.

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    2. Re:FFS by morgauxo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      That's true. A much better strategy would be to single out Amazon's customers and target them one at a time as they probably don't have as much server resources allocated to them.

    3. Re:FFS by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I can see the slogan. "Amazon.com EC2: Rock solid stability. Provided Joe Lieberman likes you."

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    4. Re:FFS by xaxa · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Most large British retailers use 3D Secure (or Visa's thing), in my experience.

      It annoys me -- every time I log in to my online banking I'm reminded not to put my banking passwords into other websites, but that's exactly what the 3D Secure system requires.

  2. "impossible" by aBaldrich · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the black hat jargon impossible means that nobody has done it yet.

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  3. Wrong weapon by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably Slashdot stories about Amazon denying hosting to Wikileaks harmed more the company than the combined Anonymous attack. There is no firewall against social attacks.

    1. Re:Wrong weapon by onefriedrice · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Probably Slashdot stories about Amazon denying hosting to Wikileaks harmed more the company than the combined Anonymous attack. There is no firewall against social attacks.

      Except most people probably agree with Amazon's decision. It probably helped them. Surely you have noticed that Slashdot is not very representative of what we might call the "general population," falling somewhere to the left of where most people are, at least in the United States, Amazon's largest market.

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    2. Re:Wrong weapon by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Except most people probably agree with Amazon's decision. It probably helped them. Surely you have noticed that Slashdot is not very representative of what we might call the "general population," falling somewhere to the left of where most people are, at least in the United States, Amazon's largest market.

      I agree for the most part. However I am not sure that the /. mantra of "a US liberal would be considered a right wing fascist in Europe" is true or not... I'm starting to think that's a myth.

      Just this morning I read this story about the pretty crappy way immigrants are treated in Germany. And I know for a fact that in Italy it's even worse, they are very draconian in that regard. And lately in the news are all those budget cuts in Ireland France UK and other EU countries, due to their huge government debt problem... cuts in SOCIAL BENEFITS! Reduced wealth redistribution. This is actually happening in Europe as we speak. It would be UNIMAGINABLE in the USA still, there is no way in hell there will ever be any reduction in welfare or unemployment or healthcare benefits..... at least not while Obama and Pelosi and Reid are still alive. So all in all I would say in many respects, USA is quite liberal even compared to Eurozone.

  4. Re:LOL - you actually believe that by swfranklin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no such thing as an impregnable commercial website.

    Never has been.

    Never will be.

    It doesn't actually have to be "impregnable", it just has to be able to scale larger than the resources their opposition is able to muster. They got that.

  5. Re:misguided attack by Minwee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not try a simple well organized boycott?

    Good idea. That really worked with Modern Warfare.