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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by espeed on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:21PM (#3487652)
Don't rule out a cyber-false-flag designed to raise the profile of "hackers" and build public demand for SOPA and friends.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by peterb on Friday January 20, 2012 @08:35AM (#3489380)
Exactly. Who benefits the most from this attack? Anonymous or SOPA/PIPA supports who get to say "look what happened, we need stronger laws on the internet".
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jhales on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:01PM (#3488095)
Possible, but if this were true, one would expect denials from anonymous mouthpieces as well.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by sebphfx on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:20PM (#3488303)
also, poster child spokesperson Barrett Brown confirmed it.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by ryanac on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:57PM (#3487757)
It is interesting that this article appeared today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3484419

On HN's frontpage, hours before the take down, then this.

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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @07:11AM (#3489205)
SOPA doesn't really have anything to do with DDOS afaik.

But I take your point , it contributes to a general "the internet is scary" atmosphere.

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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by espeed on Friday January 20, 2012 @07:23AM (#3489236)
It has to do with the initiatives to regulate the Internet and tame the wild wild Net where "anything goes".
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:26PM (#3490247)
Yes, although I have no idea how one could effectively legislate against DDOS since it's already basically illegal.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by zotz on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:30PM (#3488011)
This makes more sense than "Anonymous" taking down .gov websites in a coordinated attack.

"Anonymous" is so handy, if they didn't exist the government would just have to invent them.

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