Anonymous Threatens Internet With "Operation Blackout"
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Go for it. I want to see what it'll be like to have a single day without any sort of connection.
A SOPA simulation.
A SOPA simulation.
Aw, man... just another silly hoax. I like the theory of it, though. I was all prepared to start memorizing and browsing by IP addresses. We don't need the domain name service, it just makes the internet convenient enough that any layperson can use it.
...and to anyone who read through the entirety of the article/OP and still thinks "shutting down the internet" is actually what was described in the attack... how do you function? Seriously, that's like someone taking down all of the signs on every highway in world and people thinking the highways themselves are gone.
...and to anyone who read through the entirety of the article/OP and still thinks "shutting down the internet" is actually what was described in the attack... how do you function? Seriously, that's like someone taking down all of the signs on every highway in world and people thinking the highways themselves are gone.
Sunday, huh? You mean April the 1st? Hmm, I wonder whether they're serious about this or not...
Why would they include the info on how they plan to do it? Seems like a Crime 101 lesson that you don't tell the people that are about to get fucked over how you're going to go about it.
It'll be annoying not being able to use it (easily), but I hope they do if it gets their point across. Sometimes they are arrogant pricks about things, but most of the time their agenda lines up with my views. So good luck to 'em. I just think it's a pity they announced it this far in advance.
the mere thing that you think they they use LOIC for what they shows how umprepared you are. Sure they have at one point send LOIC copy into public, but thats it.PrinceOfShapeir said:
If they get enough followers they can do it.
Oh and is this why my internet been lagging yesterday? hehe
It's not happening. Those 13 root DNS servers are in 4 different countries and quite a few of those are in universities. Them announcing how they're going to take down the internet gives a warning to people on beefing up their security.
Besides Anonymous said they were gonna hack Fox News' website and the City of Toronto's website. Neither happened. I doubt the internet is going down this Saturday...
Besides Anonymous said they were gonna hack Fox News' website and the City of Toronto's website. Neither happened. I doubt the internet is going down this Saturday...
What gets me about this which I find just hillarious is, ok if they pull it off and say it only lasts a few hours. Theres tons of people out there with very little to no knowledge of the wider internet and this particular group, what they "stand for" if you can even call it that, or people who just have crappy internet connections anyway
For them it just might be a "huh cant connect to the internet, guess I'll go do something else and come back later"
Take my sister for example, only uses the net for social networking, facebook etc. and knows nothing of how technology works really. So to her, she'll just think its her laptop or router or something, shrug, go do something else for a few hours and come back non the wiser.
For them it just might be a "huh cant connect to the internet, guess I'll go do something else and come back later"
Take my sister for example, only uses the net for social networking, facebook etc. and knows nothing of how technology works really. So to her, she'll just think its her laptop or router or something, shrug, go do something else for a few hours and come back non the wiser.
Protest a proposed bill to restrict the internet by "breaking" the internet. Reminds me of a child smashing a favourite toy because they got in trouble for hitting another kid with it.
Bless.
Bless.
A lot of people thought Wikipedia going black to protest SOPA was literally that the government had shut down Wikipedia, despite the fact that Wikipedia provided a page explaining everything when you tried to visit. The people who want to understand will read the news and find out, and the people who don't will never ever understand or care, no matter what you do.Fenra said:
Well... Not really. It's just that you will have to know the ip of the site you want to access. Same way they wanted to block sites with SOPA (and why it would not work). I can confirm that what they are saying is technically possible, but I doubt they really have the resources to do it. They would have to shut off all 13 servers simultaniously, which would be quite impressive.Proverbial Jon said:
What is this I don't even...
They are going to shut down the entire internet? Is that even possible?
I remember when the DNS server in my local area was shut down. There's actually a fair amount of things you can still do. Anything that connects directly via IP address (Skype and most games) will still be available, and if you look up the IP address of the sites you need to go to you can still visit them. Either way, I'll be gone that day so oh well.
They have my support. People don't pay attention unless the issue directly effects them in a way they can understand.ResonanceSD said:
If you say to the average person that we live in an invisible prison where large corporations control governments and everything you do is watched, they would either respond with "that's a load of bullshit" or "I don't care, I can live comfortably".
If the everyone tries to go on the internet and finds it isn't there, calls their ISP or turns on the news to see what is going on, at least some of them will look into the issues more closely.
It's fairly simple, they're not protesting by breaking the internet, they're putting a temporary block in place for most people, so that people know that it can be taken away at any time.
I'm just looking forward to Santorum's campaign site being redirected to a massive gay porn site, personally. They've not stated any urge to do it, but I think they should.
I'm just looking forward to Santorum's campaign site being redirected to a massive gay porn site, personally. They've not stated any urge to do it, but I think they should.
I guess it would be impressive.
In a "blowing up the moon"-kind of way
Problem is, due to caching and isp-side redundancies, it wouldn´t do much (so the greatest feat in black-hatting ever would thus amount to "mild inconvenience for some people for a short duration").
Unless by "cutting it off" they mean "breacking into all the hundreds and hundreds of distributed clusters and smashing the shit out of them with a crowbar."
In a "blowing up the moon"-kind of way
Problem is, due to caching and isp-side redundancies, it wouldn´t do much (so the greatest feat in black-hatting ever would thus amount to "mild inconvenience for some people for a short duration").
Unless by "cutting it off" they mean "breacking into all the hundreds and hundreds of distributed clusters and smashing the shit out of them with a crowbar."