Posted on 06/28/2011 6:02:58 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
The hacktivist group Anonymous may be setting its sights on the city of Orlando, Florida next, if an anonymous press release which has landed in our inbox is to be believed (see bellow). The group is threatening to take down a different city-related website every day, starting with Orlando Florida Guide, which doesn’t even appear to be owned by the city of Orlando (it is registered to an organization called Utopia, administered by a man named Steven Ridenour). So any random website extolling the virtues of Orlando could be targeted.
The DDOS attacks are justified in the press release as retaliation for the repeated arrests of members of a non-profit group called Food Not Bombs, which feeds homeless people in a park without a permit. The leader of the group, Keith McHenry, was also recently arrested.
“This is a declaration of war,” writes Anonymous in its press release describing “Operation Orlando.” It warns the entire city that “Anonymous will now begin a massive campaign against you and your city web assets. Everyday we will launch a new DDoS attack on a different Target.” Its first target will be Orlando Florida Guide, which it threatens to take down between 10 AM and 6 PM tomorrow. No reason is given as to what the site or its owner did to incur the wrath of Anonymous, other than its local boosterism. It’s not even the City of Orlando‘s official website.
Anonymous Press Release – Operation Orlandop June 27, 2011
The City of Orlando has ignored our warnings, and our generous offer of a cease fire. On Wednesday last you not only arrested two more people for feeding but you arrested the worldwide President of Food Not Bombs Keith Mchenry. This is a declaration of war.
Henceforth there will
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Interesting thought, but what we see now doesn’t look much like most FReepers’ idea of ACW II, which is likely to pit defenders of liberty against a manifestly tyrannous Federal Government. The hacktivists and flash mob organizers by and large seem to have left sympathies like the “anarchists” who smash things to protest cuts in government “services”.
I guess a hastily organized FReep of a political target might be a sort of pro-liberty “flash mob”, but where are the resolutely pro-liberty hacktivists? If there were a group of hackers thoroughly dedicated to liberty and as technically competent even as LulzSec or (the supposedly lone wolf) The Jester, we’d by now have Obama’s educational and Illinois Senate records published online along with a dump of documents about the project he and Ayers ran on the Annenberg Foundation’s dime, or definitive tenchical proof that the records had been scrubbed.
In a way I’m surprised it hasn’t happened. My impression is that hackers, politically, range from libertarian to “trustifarian anarchist”. The libertarian wing should be about as offended at the Obama administration as we here are.
Which is it, 'Anonymous'? Are secrets good or bad?
If you have chickens, don’t put their feed on your front porch.
Well, I think quite a few people sort of expect pro-Liberty people to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them. It could come to that, I suppose, but our opponents are not marching through the town square wearing redcoats. I think it is hard for pro-Liberty people to understand where to start -- we don't want to be hasty, incorrect, or stupid about what we do.
On the other hand, the Left never worries about being hasty, incorrect, or stupid.
I think there has been an idea that Conservatives will "start something". What I see, however, is that the Left has started something. Anonymous attacks, calls for violence, practice with organizing flash mobs. I think the Left is on the move and that they are pre-positioning for something close to a guerrilla war. But we are not. We watch Obama and the Congress pass legislation and we think that is where the action is. We see the threat there -- in Washington and on our TV screen. It may be that the Left is more active, closer to your house than you realize. Has the war started? Are they in motion? To me it seems to be the case.
And if the city of Orlando didn’t enforce food safety regs THEY would be held LIABLE if the homeless had a massive outbreak of FOOD POISONING.
Hackers should all to very hard time at hard labor for max sentences.
No exceptions.
Which also means no “deals” like offers of jobs with the FBI or CIA, to “use their expertise”, either.
Let these little mom’s basement-dwelling weasels deal with “bunk muffin” in the big house.
Do you want those unwashed, (and odiferous), howlin’ mad bums hanging around your property? Parks where your kids play?
Chasing your community’s golden geese, (in this case tourists), away?
“Are there no prisons? The public work-houses...are they not still in operating order?”
-Charles Dickens
(No, I’m not as callous as Scrooge was, but this is what happened when the bleeding hearts closed the mental hospitals down and let a lot of nuts unable to care for themselves loose on the streets. There are plenty of places where transients can get a decent meal as well as a bed for the night if they wish to. You’d be surprised to learn that a large percentage of them in fact prefer to live on the streets and even if they do have a job or get some sort of check they’d rather spend it on booze or dope than necessities such as food and shelter.)
LOL~, Relax, unless the computers that control the rides and the Typhoon Lagoon are connected to the internet, which I doubt, you have nothing to worry about
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