DoS Attack Planned for Australian Gov. Tonight

[scrushmaster]

lol phail article thats not the name of the group.

 

[ag3nt smith]

ROFLMAO Anon? You HAVE to be kidding. I know two members of Anon and they don't know ANYTHING about computers. ...Skids

 

[Guest]

jellico, I admire your effort, you are a little off though. You speak truth, but don't have the right angle. In this particular case, Australia is vulnerable to a decent sized attack because their internet backbones are limited to a handfull of connections outside the continent (those connections are ANALOG still, the fiber line network running from Maui to the Aussies is not yet complete). Once those lines to the outside are completely JAMMED with traffic, people, businesses, will be affected. Bank transfers, youtube, etc.
Granted, from what I hear the worst of it only lasts a few hours.

 

[matt87_50]

I should clarify my previous statement by emphasizing the "with a bit of sense" part.
there is an online poll on the Australian msn at the moment and its currently 50-50 for support for the "internet censorship scheme"

unfortunately there are alot of unknolegeable, lazy parents out there who just hear "it will protect my children? well, that means less parenting for me! i'll take it!".

its the same story with the R18+ rating for games issue.
just the type of shit you have to put up with in Australia.

 

[croc]

andesdsrgfh, please do a bit more reading before you wiggle your fingers. The Southern Cross cable is by far one of the largest bandwidth cables in the world. It also provides a large portion of the bandwidth that is available to the US west coast. Then there are several smaller cables, linking AUS to Japan, Singapore, HK, Korea, etc. Sorry, we haven't provided a link to Maui yet, but you should be able to use the back-haul via the US west coast. Not our fault that US providers do not want to upgrade, is it?

BTW, the Prime Minister's website was down for a while this AM, no other site that I am aware of. Could be that the AFP (or ASIO) were using the site as a 'honeypot', so left it unprotected...

 

[eskimo_1]

When your country has an internet filter, you know you've lost your freedom of speech and alot of other human rights.

Fuck the governments and their corrupt corporate counterparts.

 

[eskimo_1]

PS. If governments really wanted to make the internet safe for their country, they'd discus an International NATO agreement to give police, FBI, etc, additional powers allowing to hack into suspects computers containing child porn etc.

I really don't see why they wouldn't look into another avenue than filtering the whole god dam internet.

 

[jellico]

[citation][nom]eskimo_1[/nom]PS. If governments really wanted to make the internet safe for their country, they'd discus an International NATO agreement to give police, FBI, etc, additional powers allowing to hack into suspects computers containing child porn etc.I really don't see why they wouldn't look into another avenue than filtering the whole god dam internet.[/citation]

Oh dead god, please tell me you're NOT serious! Would you really want to give ANY government carte blanche to hack into the computers of private citizens? If you did, all of a sudden, EVERYONE would be suspected of having child porn on their computer. And if you're someone they don't like, then you WILL end up with child porn on your computer (hell, they can do that now, it just requires a more concerted effort). If we've learned anything from history it is that no group can be trusted with that kind of power. It should be given, only when absolutely necessary, limited as much as possible, and the practitioners should be scrutinized and viewed with suspicion.

 

[bill0151]

[citation][nom]master exon[/nom]There is that word again.[/citation]
Are you anti-apparently?
Lol? wtf?

 

[Guest]

shut up about the child porn already. this filter has nothing to do with it!

this filter was initially disguised as blocking child porn sites, hence the famous (yet obtuse) quote by Stephen Conroy "Surely you're not supporting child porn/pedophilia".

the truth quickly surfaced that this filter is all about information control.

 

[Shadow703793]

Ouch. The score is now possibly going to be:
Hackers: 2
Australia Gov't:-100

See: http://www.dailytech.com/Australian+Federal+Police+Mock+Hackers+Only+to+be+Hacked+in+Return/article16023.htm

PWN3D!

 

[Shadow703793]

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