Online supporters of whistleblowing website Wikileaks are fighting back after news of Julian Assange’s arrest hit the wires.
Online activists known as “Anonymous” have initiated what they called Operation:Payback, a call to action to bring down the websites of companies that have publicly removed services once used by the Wikileaks website.
Anoymous has already targeted the Swiss bank PostFinance, a bank that froze all payments to the controversial website, after it promised to take down PayPal, the online payment company that cancelled Wikileaks’ account that it used to solicit donations.
Its current target? Mastercard. The website is currently down for a large number of users after a DDOS attack.
All of the groups actions have been publicly posted to the Anon_Operation Twitter account; the Paypal attack was posted to Twitter on December 6, declaring “target: www.paypal.com is YOYOing. Keep firing your lazors!”, the PostFinace attack was declared 17 hours ago and just minutes ago it was confirmed by the group that Mastercard had been taken offline as a result of its online assault.
Anonymous is a collection of online activists formed from popular online message boards, attacks are not for profit but are in most cases to demonstrate a show of force to promote unfair practises or highlight sensitive political issues. The three attacks here could just be the start of an uncomfortable few hours for the companies involved.
Hacking is not a long-running crime. You get caught within a pretty quick amount of time these days. What stupid men.
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Have no worry, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other big guns will only act if their clients irritate the DC… beyond that they’ll do business as usual. Btw, business (account) regulations (ToS or whatsoever) are open to their own interpretations / adjustments / modifications deemed as necessary! Being free and democratic are solely based on DC own motives and interpretations… for illustration, Hosni Mobarak from Egypt is regarded as ruling democratically since 1981 because he obeys his master and so on… that’s why rarely find news on him in the MSM :D
The realities of this world are pathetic and despicable yet they are quite real and obvious….few super elites seem to be quite in control of the entire world…
BTW, interestingly there is a POLL that reads as below in some famous site :) http://bit.ly/a7ur0Y
WikiLeaks is…
(1) a US government-created propaganda project whose goal is to establish an environment which would allow for the censoring of the Internet via outrage over their leaks.
(2) a US government-created organization that will enable war with N. Korea and/or Iran by spreading disinformation masked as truth.
(3) a US government-created project with a goal to censor the Internet and spark war with N. Korea and/or Iran by spreading disinformation masked as truth.
(4) a private organization whose goal is truly to expose the tyrannical United States government, military and secret agencies.
(5) a terrorist organization whose goal is to destroy the United States.
(6) Other: (fill in…)
just a mind storming
WELL, from a HOLISTIC VIEW: http://bit.ly/amCGF7
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“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nation will accept the New World Order.” — David Rockefeller
Operation Payback Spokesman Leaves Name in Press Release Meta Data
The rogue hacker group Anonymous, which has been making headlines for their repeated DDoS attacks dubbed Operation Payback, issued a press release. The most interesting piece of information int the release, though, was the name of the text’s author, which was present in the PDF’s meta data…
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/10196-Operation-Payback-Spokesman-Leaves-Name-in-PR-Meta-Data.html
We’re doing it every day right? Giving away our ‘product’ for much less than its production cost…
As applied to Intel.
Do you have a products to sell? Atom, Core i3. i5. i7, Xeon
Do you price them based on what it costs to produce them? No, much higher.
Would you consider selling them below their production value to build a market for yourself? Yes, they should.
Do you know the perceived value of your product? Atom, $0 – $50, Core i3, i5, i7, Xeon $0.
What is not mobile is useless for the new paradigm. In History, perceived value of a VAX box was zero for a small business considering computers.
I have said it before and I will say it again; Intel’s business model should be…
“Atom SoCs priced below $50.”
If the cost to Intel of an Atom is more than $2, Intel is doing something very wrong.