Anonymous includes instruction on its video for people to "JOIN THE RAID".
Posted on 10/04/2011 1:51:23 PM PDT by Lucky9teen
Ever since Occupy Wall Street protests began mid-September, the hacker collective Anonymous has been posting its support for protestors and threats against those like the New York Police Department, on its YouTube channel. In its most recent post over the weekend, Anonymous threatens to “erase” the New York Stock Exchange from the Internet.
Anonymous includes instruction on its video for people to "JOIN THE RAID".
When? October 10. Watch the group’s video threat — a message to the media — of a day that will “never, ever be forgot:”
As PC Magazine reports the threat, it notes that Anonymous does not explain how it will take down NYSE from the Internet. Comments on the video, however, reveal some theories:
[...] some speculated that Anonymous was planning a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on the public-facing NYSE.com website, similar to DDoS attacks the group has used to take down websites in the past.
Others felt that would only be a minor setback for the NYSE and guessed that Anonymous was planning a larger attack, perhaps even an attempt to actually disable trading on the exchange.
Anonymous confirms its DDoS attack with its “Message to the People”:
Forbes writes that invasion of the NYSE system — not of nyse.com – using a DDos attack is unlikely:
The exchange’s system is designed to handle massive loads of traffic every second to accommodate trading flows, and it’s doubtful a traffic spike would be successful in knocking it offline. Stopping short of that, it’s unlikely that traders and brokers – using their terminals and trading programs – will even notice any disruption should NYSE.com go down.
Anonymous includes instruction on both of its videos for people to “JOIN THE RAID” against nyse.com on Oct. 10 at 3:30 p.m. by downloading LOIC software and joining IRC, a link that will be go live when ready.
Forbes provides a few quick stats on the nyse.com, which it claims are “underwhelming:”
The website is ranked by Alexa as the 26,155th most visited site in the world. That puts it directly ahead of macromates.com, a site advertising a text editor for programming code. The 4 sites above it? A Russian gaming site, a men’s clothing company, a Geocities-esque online entertainment site and a Netherlands-based soccer network. Not exactly esteemed company. Quantcast, another web analytics service, estimates the monthly traffic to be somewhere between 250,000 and 350,000 visitors worldwide. Google gets that many hits in about 10 minutes.
Anonymous recently exposed personal details about NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna who was accused by a protestor of brutality. Anonymous is also recently credited for hacking into the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system and releasing information after protesters’ phones were blocked.
I don’t know, but I suspect these people are nowhere near as smart as they’d like us to think they are. Hell, they’re not there to do anything but get high and have a big party for a few nice fall days. This too will pass, and Wall St. will be just as strong as before these patchouli-smelling hippies showed up.
Hope you’re right.
Remember, they call themselves Legion, the demons cast out by Christ Himself. These are the ones who proclaim to be of the Prince of Darkness.
Satan is having a field day lately, isn’t he?
The mask is off; these morons sleeping on the sidewalk are the face of the oboma democrats.
Hopefully it will result in a few more Anon types in prison. I kinda suspect that the FBI knows more about these folks than they can even imagine.
Yeah, if they were all that smart they’d be making money so they could move out of the old lady’s basement. Wankers.
I would think that Treasury, Secret Service and FBI should be talking to a few. The goofy protestors are being used by the anarchists.
These organizers and anarchists need to be exposed...and taken down.
Satan is having a field day lately, isn’t he?
Maybe, but the dumb clucks have hitched their wagon to the wrong pony - Satan is defeated. They are sad, delusional little demon worshipers whose lives can only go down in more ways than one. This life is short, the next will be forever - they have chosen unwisely.
These people are NOT the Wall Street hippie protesters. Anonymous is a large group of well organized hackers.
Only under Obama would you see this allowed to go on in this country. Sad...
I’m not sure its possible.
As I understand it actual exchange business is done offline. Trades can be done online but no one actually logs into the exchange. Basically all these idiots can do is hurt individuals.
I heard this on Glenn Beck this morning!!!
When they finish their message they finish by stating “we are legion”. That is scary, why? What is “legion” in the Bible? When Jesus casts out demons they say “we are legion”.
I don’t like this one bit.
Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperat illi Deus; supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae coelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen
They have successfully made BofA’s online banking useless.
BOf A has been twice in the last 7 days.
ATM transactions now take 5 days to show up and post.
Watch to see if anyone starts selling short around that time. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Soros cooked this up for some type of stock manipulation.
Weren’t the Anony peeps caught and arrested, in Europe or somewhere?
“Anonymous”?
Could be one of the many black ops divisions of the
Obama administration.
Hopefully it will result in a few more Anon types in prison. I kinda suspect that the FBI knows more about these folks than they can even imagine.
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They have been infiltrated, yes.
Weren’t the Anony peeps caught and arrested, in Europe or somewhere?
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Yes, there were. In the US as well. That was when all of the “Lulzsec” stuff was hitting.
There is also a super hacker (white hat) guy named The Jester who has been going after Anon pretty hard.
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