Anonymous Threatens To Shut Down Internet Next Month

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...................

Did they find the OFF switch !!!!!!!!
 
There only one way to shut down the web......

to nuke and EMP the entire planet. Not only will that shut down the internet, it will be the last thing on peoples minds. Muahah!

Anyways, yeah dont think this type of attack will work......
 
We should take them very seriously. After all, just look what they did to Facebook back in November like they said they would do.

Oh, wait...
 
[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]We should take them very seriously. After all, just look what they did to Facebook back in November like they said they would d😵h, wait...[/citation]

I'm pretty sure that the alleged Facebook hack was a prank, not a concerted effort by anyone.
 
[citation][nom]oxxfatelostxxo[/nom]So im all for supporting some other hacker group to shut down anonymous shit....Seriously all for people taking thier own stance... But let us protest SOPA in our own way.Trying to do something that affects us all will just piss us off.[/citation]

thats the whole point, acta got signed because no one knew about it and news refused to cover it, and it only made a blip about sopa because of google. you wont get anything done if you dont make people angry.

 
i am with the ppl saying even if Anonymous takes down all 14 or 15 now because of the .xxx extension on websites it will not really effect the mass population for their daily Internet use and they would have to keep the attack up for around 3 hours for it to even start to work in which all of them will be found or at least a trail to them will be thus not really an anonymous attack.
With the attack IF it actually works what will it do which will actually hit the news or even effect anyone's life at all ? As in the USA the news is almost all about the elections and barely anything else so it most likely wont make any impression here unless it makes a BIG impact onto a support corporation of a news organization.
With all of that it is almost impossible to actually take down the Internet even if you do an EMP attack across the face of the Earth as some of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 DNS servers are in space thus still able to connect to what ever device will still work.

Now an attack with a script which hits all the Tier 2 and Tier 1 severs to issue a clear cache command at the same time on all of them and a clear DNS primary, and DNS secondary DNS lists will have the attack on the root severs work other wise it wont affect anyone with a long standing website only new IP websites will be.
 
.bat files and .sh files which execute in about 1~3 seconds depending on load at the time but making it all happen at the same time will be the thing as if it doesn't all happen around the same 5 - 10 seconds of time they can just rebuild most of if not the entire table from bits and pieces left over on other DNS severs and since it is all interconnected if they do it most likely wont work to have the intended affect as there are to many moving variables including time of the computers on hundreds of computers.
For it to work um someone like a hacker would have to be inside of many different ISPs over the time between when now and when it is to take place just to have the files get in to where they will have to be which also will mess up checksums. As most systems know what is and what is not to be on it and some even do a back-up restore to make sure they don't get attacked like that with a timed attack.
In short i doubt the group Anonymous has the man power and/or the smarts to pull off something that complex.
 
part of the problem is that from what i am told they are good at hiding who they are so how can you get their hands off if you do not know who's hands to cut off?
 
What kind of bandwidth does those 13 original servers have? I have a feeling that even if they used their entire bot army that would only be able to (maybe) max 1 at most. Last time I heard they had what 6000 servers and around 150k computers? +all the other morons that actualy willingly downloaded the Anon app
 
March 31st, 2012

Goodbye, Internet Life! Hello, Social Life!

I guess it'll do me some good. Hope it stays down for a while.

How come Anonymous hasn't targeted Google? They've become a bit intrusive.
 
That is a good question why havent they gone after Google? Or can you think about the other side of it that they use http://www.google.com or their countries equivalent to it to get the information for their hacks thus if they bring down Google they will not be able to do much more after that. Also they probably scanned Google with a top level scan like h-ping, or n-ping or something like that and found out that Google is with very good anti hacking on their servers
As all of their servers have the open ports shadowed, then they have overflow protection, multiple IPs linked to multiple and redundant web severs and probably a ton of other stuff which my programs do not even tell me. Thus Google is preped for a hack attack of most kinds.
In all of that even thus Anonymous is not that smart with this statement being broadcast on here and other sites probably they are smart enough to realize they cannot bring down Google that easy with what resources they have.
 
"Oh yay. Thanks for that." keep it to yourself. those kind of comments are not needed in a news article. shame on you.

and next time at least check your facts. this is totally fake. anon didn't announced ANYTHING.
 
[citation][nom]thebski[/nom]There is a reason we let economists handle the economy.You can't let the banks fail. What happens when you let the banks fail? See 1930. I'm not going to get into all the economics behind it, but that's what happened.Are the banks being ran properly? That's a different argument entirely, but people would throw an absolute fit if the government had control of the major banks. This is the alternative they get.[/citation]
that's what happens when you let people create money out of thin air, and not backed by something hard like gold or diamonds or other precious resources. you put your trust that the credit they issue you in place of your currency will have value and continue to have value.
when they start screwing with the value of your money you stop trusting them and pull everything out before they have lost all trust and stolen every thing.
that's what causes banks to collapse, when they don't have enough hard resource to meet the demand for with drawl of credit.
money doesn't grow on trees and money should never be conjured up out of thin air.
credit is nothing more then faith, like faith in god, jesus or allah, the pagan gods, the greek gods or in intelligent design, darwins theory, or there being a reason for life.
with out faith there is nothing to give respect and credit for.
stop trusting people whose jobs it is to steal your money, nickles dimes, pennies, dollars or homes with, they are no different then the other thieves.
thieves used to be stopped by killing them, once you stop killing them they think its perfectly okay to keep stealing.
 
Ya know, it might be a nice break. What day was that? I think I'll book vacation.
 
[citation][nom]hasten[/nom]Script kiddies with too much time and grandiose delusions. The big one's never seem to happen.[/citation]

That's because the big ones are usually fakes generated by media and other liars, not anonymous hackers. Like another poster said, this was not announced on any official anonymous site and is undoubtedly fake, like the Facebook "hacks".
 
Anonymous is just that a bunch of anonymous ppl who come together to hack something or another. to answer __-_-_-__before yes i know this isn't from the group anonymous but it is an anonymous person who is claiming it having your group's name be " Anonymous " leads to things like that happening that you did not get what i meant. On that they would need a professional who is an experienced hacker and a ton of access and time to pull it off whoever they might be.
I really doubt any professional hacker will want to bring down the Internet though as cracking is what he or she does for a living and makes to much money off of being a white hat hacker so why go black hat or gray hat?
Also whoever these script kiddies are they are misinformed about how to go about these attack and will attack to little to make an impact thus a failure.
 
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