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PayPal Hands Over 1,000 IP Addresses To the FBI

Posted by samzenpus on from the naughty-list dept.

tekgoblin writes "PayPal was attacked by Anonymous last year when they had blocked the Wikileaks accounts transactions. Now PayPal has finally come up with enough evidence to strike back at Anonymous with the help of the FBI. PayPal has come up with a list of over 1,000 IP Addresses left behind when they were attacked by Anonymous."

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  1. Re:oooh 1,000 infected computers by Moryath · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By that logic, citizens who protested against Gitmo were "providing material support" to the supposed terrorists held there.

    This is where the law has become completely goddamn stupid. A protest is a protest. If it becomes violent, and that means PHYSICALLY VIOLENT, then it's a problem. Shy of that, it's just a protest and protected under the Constitutional right to peaceably assemble.

    Temporarily taking a website offline sucks for the affected company. So does a protest that blocks the street in front of a store being protested, or even the neighboring stores in the strip mall. But unless there is permanent damage done (the equivalent of someone not just peacefully protesting, but actively spray-painting graffiti as one conceptual example) then it's just a protest and shouldn't be considered criminal.