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Fuzz

(8,827 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 07:25 PM Feb 2012

Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400140,00.asp

Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.

"CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous," the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.

The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down its targets.

Last month, in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown, Anonymous also took down the websites for the Department of Justice, the Copyright Office, and the FBI.
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Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site (Original Post) Fuzz Feb 2012 OP
I don't think that is funny. applegrove Feb 2012 #1
While I believe they may have crossed a serious line here, the rogue CIA Mnemosyne Feb 2012 #2
It's too bad they can't take down the agency itself jeanpalmer Feb 2012 #3
Ho hum. 2ndAmForComputers Feb 2012 #4
TPM report riverwalker Feb 2012 #5
Such a shame that script kiddies are now considered "hackers" Ohio Joe Feb 2012 #6
Excellent. Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #7
Hmmmm... Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #8

Mnemosyne

(21,363 posts)
2. While I believe they may have crossed a serious line here, the rogue CIA
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:05 PM
Feb 2012

is a serious detriment to the world's peace and maybe light shining on them will change some future actions by these clowns.

Or maybe they will just hunt Anonymous down and kill them. We would never really know...

jeanpalmer

(1,625 posts)
3. It's too bad they can't take down the agency itself
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:25 PM
Feb 2012

It's full of anti-democratic rogue elements. Right wingers operating in a a manner completely at odds with the precepts of an open democratic society. The best thing that agency could do is disappear.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
5. TPM report
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:34 PM
Feb 2012
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/anonymous-claims-takedown-of-cia-website.php

"However, there is some doubt over whether this is a true “Anonymous” operation in the sense that involves any of the group’s regular participants.

A search of Twitter’s publicly available tweets by TPM did not reveal that tweet quoted by RT, and other accounts under the banner of Anonymous have mainly re-tweeted the link to the RT report. A widely cited tweet by the account YourAnonNews reading “CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous,” also linked back to the RT report.
As Gizmodo pointed out, the operator of that account seems as bewildered as anyone as to what’s actually going on, later tweeting: “go figure, RT got it up from me, u retweeted and other news sites post your tweet pl0x (this msg will self destruct in T-2 lol.”

As Gizmodo points out, the length of time that the website has been unavailable and the lack of chatter about the outage on any Anonymous IRC (internet relay chat) channels, one of the loosely-knit group’s preferred methods of communication, indicates that it may not be the work of any of its regulars."

Ohio Joe

(21,758 posts)
6. Such a shame that script kiddies are now considered "hackers"
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:41 PM
Feb 2012

Even more of a shame that people are impressed with DDoS attacks... Sheesh.

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