Operation Payback Have Told Britain's Channel 4 News That "Twitter Will Fall Next"

[Turborama]

Operation Payback: "Twitter Will Fall Next"

Thursday December 09 2010

The people behind cyber attacks on various websites, including Mastercard, Visa, and those of several US politicians sites, have told Channel 4 News that "Twitter will fall next."



The attackers, who call themselves Operation Payback, have in the past few days temporarily crashed the websites of the world's two biggest credit card companies, PayPal, American politicians Sarah Palin and Joe Leiberman, and that of the lawyer representing the women who have accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes.

All of the parties have either spoken out against jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or severed ties with the whistle blowing website, hampering the continued dissemination of secret US cables and making it difficult to donate to the organistaion.

Social netweorking site Twitter removed Operation Payback's account yesterday. Before that happened, members post a message, which read: "We will fire at anything or anyone that tries to censor WikiLeaks, including multibillion-dollar companies such as PayPal."

Channel 4 News has had email correspondence with and spoken to several members of the group, a branch of Anonymous, which in the past, have been responsible for similar cyber attacks against Scientolgists. Group member and former hacker, James, told Channel 4 News that after Twitter suspended the group’s account several days ago, the social networking site would become a target.

Full article: http://www.channel4.com/news/operation-payback-twitter-will-fall-next

[valerief]

1. Of course, killing Twitter sounds like something the ruling elite want done. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. How much of an impact is a "temporary" crash?

Seems to me they would have to repeatedly crash a site to be effective.
Or am I missing something here?

[Matariki]

3. How much impact is a protest in the streets?

[CJCRANE]

5. Sometimes small acts of resistance

help to make a point and get your message across.

[bemildred]

6. This is show business,

They don't really want to destroy anybody.

[onehandle]

4. Childish. And how hard is it to bust Twitter? It goes down when capacity goes 5% too high. nt