Mastercard site down as payback for Wikileaks

[Bandito]

The websites of the international credit card MasterCard and the Swedish prosecution authority are among the latest to be taken offline in the escalating technological battle over Wikileaks, web censorship and perceived political pressure.
Co-ordinated attacks by online activists who support the site and its founder Julian Assange – who is in UK custody accused of raping two Swedish women – have seen the websites of the alleged victims' Swedish lawyer disabled, while commercial and political targets have also been subject to attack by a loose coalition of global hackers.

Read rest here. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/operation-payback-mastercard-website-wikileaks)

[Sean]

WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' http://is.gd/iooG9
about 3 hours ago (http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/12559651295985664) via web
Retaliation for their actions or reason enough to attack wikileaks in the pocket first?
I'm shocked and amazed. And I've got popcorn.

[bricolage]

In this day and age more fool anyone who pisses off the computer geeks.

[Sasha]

blog keeping track of all the Ddos attacks and counter attacks: http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/tis-the-season-of-ddos-wikileaks-editio/
fascinating reading

[EvilRedGuy]

Good. Fuck the system.

[Bandito]

Internet will change a lot in the future revolutionary movement. People who think things will be taken care of in the same manner as the Russians did it almost a century ago are just ridiculous.
Internet, technology and mass communications will change everything, sooner than we imagine.
For example, this. If someone knows a thing or two about computers, he just has to agree or be pissed off at Assange's arrest, and make something useful just using his keyboard and brain. A lot of thing will be handled through web sabotages in the future, it is the 21th century's equivalent to bombing railways.

[Widerstand]

Internet will change a lot in the future revolutionary movement. People who think things will be taken care of in the same manner as the Russians did it almost a century ago are just ridiculous.
Internet, technology and mass communications will change everything, sooner than we imagine.
For example, this. If someone knows a thing or two about computers, he just has to agree or be pissed off at Assange's arrest, and make something useful just using his keyboard and brain. A lot of thing will be handled through web sabotages in the future, it is the 21th century's equivalent to bombing railways.

Propaganda of the DDoS!