BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk)

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 2, 2016 @02:40AM from the can-we-call-these-people-digitlantes? dept.

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?"

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Without online terrorists... who is there to fight by Entrope · 2016-01-02 02:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

Or maybe it should be "without cyber terrorists... who is there to fight online hackers?"
Did their mothers never tell them that two wrongs don't make a right? You need at least three lefts to make a right, or something.