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BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk)
New submitter shilly writes: The BBC is reporting that all its websites were taken offline on New Year's Eve for several hours, and the attack appears to be from a group calling itself New World Hacking. The group claims its raison d'être is to attack IS, but wanted to test out its capabilities first and chose the BBC as a target. A member of the group said, "We realize sometimes what we do is not always the right choice, but without cyber hackers... who is there to fight off online terrorists?"
The motivations were probably different. The group that took down the BBC is probably against Islam, recognizing it as the force behind ISIS. The BBC is against ISIS b'cos people get a bad impression of Islam from their activities.
Precisely! This group should follow up w/ going after PBS, NPR, Guardian, Huffington Post, and a whole lot of others.