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Lan wrote on 2010-12-08 23:49
LONDON — Hackers rushed to the defense of WikiLeaks on Wednesday, launching attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Swedish prosecutors, a Swiss bank and others who have acted against the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange.
Internet "hacktivists" operating under the label "Operation Payback" claimed responsibility in a Twitter message for causing severe technological problems at the website for MasterCard, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks a day ago.
MasterCard acknowledged "a service disruption" involving its Secure Code system for verifying online payments, but spokesman James Issokson said consumers could still use their credit cards for secure transactions. Later Wednesday, Visa's website was inaccessible.
The online attacks are part of a wave of support for WikiLeaks that is sweeping the Internet. Twitter was choked with messages of solidarity for the group, while the site's Facebook page hit 1 million fans.
Late Wednesday, Operation Payback itself appeared to run into problems, as many of its sites went down. It was unclear who was behind the counterattack.
MasterCard is the latest in a string of U.S.-based Internet companies – including Visa, Amazon.com, PayPal Inc. and EveryDNS – to cut ties to WikiLeaks in recent days amid intense U.S. government pressure. PayPal was not having problems Wednesday but the company said it faced "a dedicated denial-of-service attack" on Monday.
WikiLeaks' extensive releases of secret U.S. diplomatic cables have embarrassed U.S. allies, angered rivals, and reopened old wounds across the world. U.S. officials in Washington say other countries have curtailed their dealings with the U.S. government because of WikiLeaks' actions.
PayPal Vice President Osama Bedier said the company froze WikiLeaks' account after seeing a letter from the U.S. State Department to WikiLeaks saying that the group's activities "were deemed illegal in the United States."
Offline, WikiLeaks was under pressure on many fronts. Assange is in a British prison fighting extradition to Sweden over a sex crimes case. Recent moves by Swiss Postfinance, MasterCard, PayPal and others that cut the flow of donations to the group have impaired its ability to raise money.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/mastercard-down-hacked-wikileaks-ddos_n_793625.html
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-12-09 00:02
This is good.
The retards in government will get what they deserve. The world doesn't revolve around them anymore, they can't hide their crap and expect everyone to trust them.
The owner said government documents concerning UFOs would be released if he's jailed, so that's what I'm mostly interested in. I hope he wasn't bluffing.
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mewball wrote on 2010-12-09 00:07
Holy crap the government is pist because now everyone knows the TRUTH!?
PEOPLE CAN'T KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON. THEN HOW THE **** DO WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM
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Chillax wrote on 2010-12-09 00:14
Wrong way to approach this issue.
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Cannibal wrote on 2010-12-09 00:24
Quote from mewball;241444:
Holy crap the government is pist because now everyone knows the TRUTH!?
PEOPLE CAN'T KNOW WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON. THEN HOW THE **** DO WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM
The truth that when revealed gave location information about our troops, putting them in significant danger.
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Iyasenu wrote on 2010-12-09 00:25
Wow.
This is like something out of a movie.
What happens next?
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TA wrote on 2010-12-09 00:43
I think they should withhold any information that puts our country or our soldiers in danger. But, I would like to see the UFO documents.
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Time wrote on 2010-12-09 01:12
Quote from Tasha;241508:
I think they should withhold any information that puts our country or our soldiers in danger. But, I would like to see the UFO documents.
I agree pretty much.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-12-09 01:16
Quote from Lust;241465:
The truth that when revealed gave location information about our troops, putting them in significant danger.
That's only a fraction of the documents, even I'm 50/50 on those.
The ones everyone in high positions are whining about is the ones of their "secret" conversations, between government staff of various countries. It's only when those came out that serious stuff started to happen to the guy. Shows what really matters to them doesn't it?
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Time wrote on 2010-12-09 01:19
Quote from Osayidan;241554:
That's only a fraction of the documents, even I'm 50/50 on those.
The ones everyone in high positions are whining about is the ones of their "secret" conversations, between government staff of various countries. It's only when those came out that serious stuff started to happen to the guy. Shows what really matters to them doesn't it?
Yup.
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Lan wrote on 2010-12-09 01:25
I wouldn't like it much if my conversations were aired out :/ they must hate it XD
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Chillax wrote on 2010-12-09 01:40
Interesting? Yes. Necessary? Hardly. It's like talking behind your boss's back and then having someone rat you out to him/her.
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Zid wrote on 2010-12-09 17:07
At the same time, this is essentially "martyring" WikiLeaks, as when people hear of this, it might persuade them to support WikiLeaks even more.
This is really the wrong way to approach this issue.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-12-09 17:29
You know whats funny is 4chan is taking a huge ass role in this.
Looking at their threads now. They're still making DDOS attacks all over the place.
Supposedly siding with wikileaks on this one.
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Athde wrote on 2010-12-09 17:36
The politicans are also butt-hurt due simply to the fact that it puts them in a bad spotlight.
They have also been more active due to the fact that everyone wants to sue the founder of wikileaks. I highly doubt the U.S. is getting anywhere.
If you want to know more they (for some reason) have an article about this on knowyourmeme. Just search Operation Payback.
What makes this even more dangerous is that now 4Chan actually has people siding with them that always thought them immature. This is turning into a actual internet war.... I am definitely siding with 4chan/Wikileaks and every other organization on this. It'll give me something to do and I like the feeling of cause it gives me. As of now PayPal is no longer receiving any orders through me nor is Amazon. Let's just see how this Internet Civil War turns out eh?