Anonymous Takes Out Go Daddy

[Jobbie]

I hope people realize that as these attacks become more and more intrusive on the common person, the public will look to the government to simply "Fix the Problem." By fixing the problem, the gov't will happily jam through congress thousands of pages worth of regulatory law that not even future lawyers or courts will be able to understand. ehemm.."obamacare" What's really twisted is the fact that the public at large will happily support such a bill, if it's meant for the "common or collective good" Oh socialism....

And so eventually I for see laws, upon regulation, upon laws, upon regulation for USA's internet. It will be censored, nothing but a shell of it's former self.

So my point is. The script kiddies might want to chill out. Eventually the average Joe will get pissed because he can't surf his morning news. Like minded groups will form along side small business and corporations to enact some over the top response....which is typically some dumbass knee jerk law or regulation that really fraks things up.

 

[Nico III]

This guy doesn't represent Anonymous, nor did he bring down GoDaddy - he merely claimed responsibility shortly after the site went down, and hasn't provided a shred of evidence to back his claims up. Either someone else killed the site, or GD are having tech issues. He did the same thing with a Facebook outage a while back. All this coverage is just padding his ego and feeding the troll.

 

[likalaruku]

Looks like they're up & running to me. It seems it wasn't down long enough to matter.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm sorry, but we still care? Didn't anyone give 'em the memo that the Anon fad is over now?

Can you hack Go Daddy?

Yeah no...stfu

Hello, non-relevant and pointless post. What's that? You want a report? CERTAINLY!

Yeah, nobody cares.

 

[Monsterfurby]

The thing is: any attack is coming from anonymous. They are not really a group, but multiple groups. Problem about this: most of them are more interested in dicking around than doing anything useful. Mentioning it... when was the last time anyone operating under the Anon name did anything useful?

Oh, right. Project Chanology, in 2009.

Guys, get back to doing something useful. Scientology is still a great target.

 

[Poindexter92]

Please, some country, any country, find these idiots and make them rot in jail. I'm sick of tired of them breaking the laws and shitting all over us under the disguise of "we're doing it for you".

Kinda hard to make untraceable people rot in jail...

 

[nitro27]

This is front page shit right here. Some dude claims to have taken down Go Daddy because of reasons he can not talk now. Why isn't this in the newspapers?

 

[Something Amyss]

As a paid subscriber to GoDaddy, and a small business owner who depends on his website, I am honestly trying to figure out what legal recourse I have here. I mean my business is effectively shut down by hackers.

My business insurance has a clause for "damage due to terrorist attack" and I am trying top decide if this counts as domestic terrorism. Even I think that's a little alarmist, but the point remains. My website has been down now for 48 hours. That's A LONG time in a service related industry.

I'll admit, I am NOT the best person to ask when it comes to whether or not X company is in bed with Y political stance. But that's no reason to effectively attack and possibly kill my business. This was a really poor choice of protest, and I am left now with lost time and money, and still no website.

Any advice?

Contact your insurance provider and ask?

I think that's the best step. They're the ones who would be final arbiter anyway.

Anonymous really is a terrorist group, but that doesn't mean they will count as one.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

As a paid subscriber to GoDaddy, and a small business owner who depends on his website, I am honestly trying to figure out what legal recourse I have here. I mean my business is effectively shut down by hackers.

My business insurance has a clause for "damage due to terrorist attack" and I am trying top decide if this counts as domestic terrorism. Even I think that's a little alarmist, but the point remains. My website has been down now for 48 hours. That's A LONG time in a service related industry.

I'll admit, I am NOT the best person to ask when it comes to whether or not X company is in bed with Y political stance. But that's no reason to effectively attack and possibly kill my business. This was a really poor choice of protest, and I am left now with lost time and money, and still no website.

Any advice?

It is terrorism... Terrorism is by definition (in the UK at least):

(1) In this Act "terrorism" means the use or threat of action where:
(a) the action falls within subsection (2),
(b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public and
(c) the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.
(2) Action falls within this subsection if it:

(a) involves serious violence against a person,
(b) involves serious damage to property,
(c) endangers a person's life, other than that of the person committing the action,
(d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public or
(e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system

If the intent of the attack is finally revealed then I beleive you would stand a case, at least in the British courts...

Check out your countries court first, however check losses first, to see how much or little you have lost...

And finally, just give your insurance company a call... I am sure that they would be able to ask their LegAds to answer that, and not charge you a penny!

 

[Zaik]

What kind of newfag would call themselves security leader of anonymous? That's got to be something some internet journalism wizard came up with.

 

[ElPatron]

Please, some country, any country, find these idiots and make them rot in jail. I'm sick of tired of them breaking the laws and shitting all over us under the disguise of "we're doing it for you".

Yeah, let's impose a draconian tyranny on the internet and use massive violations of the penal code just to get a few script kiddies in jail.

"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."

That is Ben Franklin or whatever. There's dozens of variations on that quote and I'm not bored enough to google dead people.

So Anonymous censors the internet to fight "censoring the internet"... That's taking the high ground for ya!

"Oh no, they tried to assassinate Hitler because he was murdering people! Those devilish rascals!"

I have no reason to side with Anonymous but this kind of comments makes it hard to see them as the bad guys.

Interested to see what the reason was for taking it down.

It's most likely typical hacker BS. They get their jollies from messing with people digitally. For no other reason then they have the ability to do so.

That reminds me of that black dude in the film Hackers. Doesn't actually understand hacking, never really had contact with hackers so when he tries to vilify hacking he just spits out some non-sense on camera.

Really, there are better explanations than "some men just want to watch the world burn" and that pseudo-internet-psychology doesn't actually replace knowledge. Which none of us have, and shouldn't pretend to have.

When will news guys and idiots on twitter learn? ANONYMOUS IS A GROUP THAT ANYONE CAN SAY THEY ARE PART OF. It is not official, it is not organized, so why do people keep pretending it is?

Some guy on twitter with Anonymous in his name said that he took down GoDaddy, therefore it must be true...

I can't believe that every news site has jumped on this without any verification, and inflated the already massively undeserved reputation Anonymous has. I'm betting that it wasn't a hack and is a technical issue from GoDaddy's crappy infrastructure.

This times a hundred million. I also know of "some guy" in the Secret Service that used the internet to expose how Jews did 9/11, so he *must* be legit.

 

[surg3n]

By using Go Daddy, you are supposedly supporting censorship of the internet. By shutting down a website, you are CENSORING the internet. One of these is worse than the other, how long does it take the average Anonymous fucktard-butthurt-script-kiddy to work this out.

 

[Bigsmith]

Fuck it, I really don't care what their reasoning was for attacking Go Daddy, but I feel too many people have/will been effected by the attack.

People use web hosting for personal and business use and this could cause problems with regards to either.

I'm sorry, but I'm really starting to get annoyed with anon attacking these people. At first I used to be with them like when Paypal stopped money going into people accounts for X reason ect ect.. but now?

Too many people are being effected for minor reasons, and contradictory ones at that (I'm sorry, but taking down a site, aka censorship, because they support censorship doesn't make any sense in my books), so you can count my support for these attacks dropped.

And no, the people don't deserve to lose the ability to access their content/ webpages because they use Go Daddy and 'in theory' support it.

Feel free to call me ignorant if you wish.


Also, from an Computer Science student point of view: I'm getting really annoyed that these businesses aren't being made to withstand such a simple attack. Normally Anon uses DOS or DDOS attacks which can be easily blocked or prevented by changing some setting in the hardware firewall...

Cause lets face it, we're dealing with script kiddies here, or 'L33T Haxorzs' as they like to call them selves; not people trained to hack into networks as part of ethical hacking procedures in order to test networks and find week spots.

 

[Caverat]

I'm still waiting for Anonymous to do a single relevant thing that justifies their existence.

Probably be waiting until a doomsday that never comes.

"Oh no, they tried to assassinate Hitler because he was murdering people! Those devilish rascals!"

I have no reason to side with Anonymous but this kind of comments makes it hard to see them as the bad guys.

Quickest way to make yourself look like a witless fuckstick? Compare something to fascism/Nazis/Hitler.

This isn't comparable to killing a tyrant to stop a genocide, this is punishing every user of a postal service for the opinions of the postmaster general. This is effecting people's livelihood for no other reason than the childish, mis-placed anti-establishment crap that too often spews from the mouths of entitled, well-off, first worlders. I'm not against them expressing their opinions that I disagree with, I take exception when they start harming others.

Anonymous and its supporters need to wake the hell up, and grow the fuck up.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

All I have to say GoDaddy is an awful service anyway. Though I do not condone this attack.