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Fort Lauderdale's website down for hours after threat from Anonymous hackers
Sun Sentinel ^ | 12/1/14 | Larry Barszewski

Posted on 12/02/2014 4:13:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

....the hacker group Anonymous made good on a threat to crash the city's website because of recent laws the city has passed regulating homeless behavior.

Besides the city's website, fortlauderdale.gov, the police department website, flpd.org, also was affected, as was the city's email system.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hackers; internet
Fort Lauderdale recently passed a law that said if you feed the homeless, you have to have bathrooms and hand washing facilities available.
1 posted on 12/02/2014 4:13:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

The law may need to be improved, but Anonymous needs to stay out of it.


2 posted on 12/02/2014 4:14:40 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is all the Anons are good for: taking digital crayons to the walls.

Smart money is, the Anons misread the ordinance, and thought it read “you can’t feed homosexuals”. That’s all the Anons would support.

If you remind them that some of those homeless are veterans, they wouldn’t go near it. That’s the kind of douchenozzles they are.


3 posted on 12/02/2014 4:25:40 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I think the group’s been hijacked by leftist script kiddies. There are much bigger fish to fry than an FTL law regarding the homeless.

The latest Anonymous targets lead me to believe their internal leaders are either in jail or taking a sabbatical from their screens.


4 posted on 12/02/2014 4:28:30 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

With all the tech-savvy that Anonymous apparently has, can’t they think of something better to do with it? Like maybe crashing the IRS website right around taxtime. Now that’s what I call some serious insurrection. Not that I’m condoning it, of course....


5 posted on 12/02/2014 4:52:51 AM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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