‘Anonymous’ hackers plan to shut down the Internet this Saturday

[Tim Deegan]

‘Anonymous’ hackers plan to shut down the Internet this Saturday

http://digg.com/newsbar/story/anonym...ther_multiline

best run for the hills then while listening to a bit of R.E.M

[Graham M]

Best of luck to them, I can't see how this would even work.

[thenry]

Erm... I'll be looking to stream at 3pm on Saturday

Originally Posted by thenry

Erm... I'll be looking to stream at 3pm on Saturday

don't worry ,they'll all be tweating each other by 1pm "why didn't it work " "did you press the return key" "i thought you did" "nah mate i was updating my facebook status"

[nomadking]

About 4 years ago, somebody in Pakistan inadvertently 'took out' YouTube for most of the world. It may be possible to do it on a wider basis.

Misrouting occurs every year or so among the world's Internet carriers, usually as a result of typos or other errors, Underwood said. In a more severe example, a Turkish telecom provider in 2004 started advertising that it was the best route to all of the Internet, causing widespread outages for many Web sites over several hours.

"Nobody ran any viruses or worms or malicious code. This is just the way the Internet works. And it's not very secure or reliable," Underwood said, adding that there is no real solution to the problem on the table.

[Zee]

good luck,maybe we can all get off cableforum for the day and enjoy the good old fresh air

[Uncle Peter]

Ah they're protesting against SOPA again. Incidentally: SOPA happens to be an anagram of soap which is something pasty sunshine dodgers with an aversion to personal hygeine should consider using instead of sitting on their sweaty buttocks all day looking for things to hack.

[Tim Deegan]

I don't care who they are protesting against. They have no right to affect internet businesses that they have no quibble with from operating.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally Posted by Anonymous

Opblackout does not support Operation Global Blackout. we are not shutting down the INTERNET and thats a different OP.

Straight from Anonymous

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Zee

good luck,maybe we can all get off cableforum for the day and enjoy the good old fresh air

Indeed, I'm at Center Parcs all weekend so I'm unconcerned about this outage

[Pog66]

Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

‘Anonymous’ hackers plan to shut down the Internet this Saturday

http://digg.com/newsbar/story/anonym...ther_multiline

Prepare for panic downloading tomorrow then

[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by Zee

good luck,maybe we can all get off cableforum for the day and enjoy the good old fresh air

Typical that they chose the day when the weather is due to get colder again

[roger skillin]

If they can pull it off i'll be mighty impressed, i say good luck to them and look forward to not being able to access Facebook, might get something productive done for once

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Pog66

Prepare for panic downloading tomorrow then

Or sort through the stuff you've already downloaded. and make a 'Best' folder. delete the rubbish and duplicate ones. then you got more drive space to download some more!