Posted on 12/09/2010 1:47:48 PM PST by Bob Hyneman
Computerworld - This morning's planned distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Amazon.com by Anonymous, a hacker group that has launched similar attacks against organizations it sees attempting to censor WikiLeaks, appears to have failed.
Vanity: The attacks by cyber terrorist groupitself "Anonymous" have backfired.
As soon as I heard they had attacked Amazon and visa I did all my Christmas shopping at Amazon.com . . .and paid for it with my visa.
Thanks to Anonymous Amazon.com is $350 richer.
Cyberterrorism: the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve a poltical goal especialy an attempt to intimedate or coerce others for poltical ends
(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...
So those of us who boycott Amazon for allowing ebooks about how to get away with molesting kids should stop?
...related: so all of a sudden MasterCard is your friend, just because they were hacked by Assanges friends?
Boy I tell you what: if you let other people make up your mind for you, you'll be pretty dizzy these days...
Oh and MasterCard.com is up and running again.
Remember back when ComputerWorld magazine has as thick as a deck of playing cards and you eagerly awaited the new edition to reach the mailbox or newsstand?
This original post... What a sad sad idiotic commentary on the abysmal quality of print that CW is putting out these days.
/still buys copies at newsstands
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