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Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous
Hugh Pickens writes "John Markoff writes that an unsuccessful campaign against the Vatican by Anonymous, which did not receive wide attention at the time, provides a rare glimpse into the recruiting, reconnaissance, and warfare tactics used by the shadowy hacking collective and may be the first end-to-end record of a full Anonymous attack. The attack, called Operation Pharisee in a reference to the sect that Jesus called hypocrites, was initially organized by hackers in South America and Mexico and was designed to disrupt Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Madrid in August 2011 for World Youth Day and draw attention to child sexual abuse by priests. First the hackers spent weeks spreading their message through their own website and social sites like Twitter and Flickr calling on volunteers to download free attack software and imploring them to 'stop child abuse' by joining the cause. It took the hackers 18 days to recruit enough people, then a core group of roughly a dozen skilled hackers spent three days poking around the church's World Youth Day site looking for common security holes that could let them inside. In this case, the scanning software failed to turn up any gaps so the hackers turned to a brute-force approach of a distributed denial-of-service, On the first day, the denial-of-service attack resulted in 28 times the normal traffic to the church site, rising to 34 times the next day but did not crash the site. 'Anonymous is a handful of geniuses surrounded by a legion of idiots,' says Cole Stryker, an author who has researched the movement. 'You have four or five guys who really know what they're doing and are able to pull off some of the more serious hacks, and then thousands of people spreading the word, or turning their computers over to participate in a DDoS attack.'"
Then retract that head out of your skanky butt, and do something more brilliant, sonny.....
"I never could understand the Catholic's refusal to let priests marry, considering that one of the Apostles (Peter maybe? I'd have to look it up) said that men should marry to avoid being tempted into sinful sex, and there's surely not much that's more sinful than raping children."
It actually wasn't the policy for priests to be barred from marriage until the Catholic Church figured out that if priests married they would have heirs and if they had heirs then those heirs might inherit church property. If they don't have heirs, priests inheritance would go back into the Church. So in order to increase the wealth of the Church priests were not allowed to marry. That's the reason, the Catholic Church cares a lot more about money and power than child rape and always has.
To anyone that continues to support the Catholic Church: Stop. Supporting the Church makes you a bad person. You are an accessory to child rape and the spread of AIDS. Giving the keys to heaven to the Catholic Church is like giving the keys to your car to a drunken 9 year old, to be a Catholic you need to believe that God is simultaneously omniscient and a complete moron. Centuries of burning people to death for attempting to translate the Bible into English should be enough of a clue by itself. This religion is not appropriate for civilized people.
You believe the Holy Spirit guides an international child molestation ring? Andy you remain loyal to this child molesting spirit?