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Department of Justice, and Department of Finance under DDoS attacks

dlofnep · 2012-01-25 03:00:17

http://www.thejournal.ie/government-websites-taken-offline-in-anonymous-opireland-attack-336623-Jan2012/ This legislation is clearly an attack on everything the internet stands for. Can't say I see the point in DDoS attacks, but I appreciate the solidarity with the Irish net-users.

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25-01-2012 4:00am

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THE WEBSITES of the Department of Justice and Finance were taken offline this evening after coordinated attacks by ‘hacktivists’ from the Anonymous movement.

The Department of Justice site, justice.ie, went down at around 11:20pm after Twitter accounts affiliated to the Anonymous movement urged members to target the website with an apparent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

http://www.thejournal.ie/government-websites-taken-offline-in-anonymous-opireland-attack-336623-Jan2012/

This legislation is clearly an attack on everything the internet stands for. Can't say I see the point in DDoS attacks, but I appreciate the solidarity with the Irish net-users.

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#2 25-01-2012 12:23pm
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Some-what related, but funnier:
http://packetstormsecurity.org/news/view/20501/US-Government-Security-Advice-Site-Trashed-By-Hackers.html

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#3 25-01-2012 2:52pm
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Hi,

I started writing a thread here about the legal aspects of ddos but I moved it here instead. I would like a debate about the legal aspects of online protesting as seen in the past few days.

Cheers

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