But wikileaks seems to think it’s their fans doing it.
HOW EASY is it to break into these things!!
what’s worse is i have NO IDEA how any of this works!!!
Is there more protection than just passwords? i know it’s a silly question, but i dont know.
Encryption can get very deep. It's an automated cypher. Unfortunately, the NSA was hacked over the summer, and the US government demands that all encryption algorithms of US companies be stored there.
But frankly, Obama might be trying to make a scapegoat out of Assange. Who wants communication shut down? Obama or Assange?
I’m not an expert, but I know that it doesn’t take much to take down a single web site or web service. A DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack is where a large number of computers (sometimes referred to as a botnet) floods a single web site or web service with overwhelming requests. If many web sites or web services depend on the targeted machine then it will also take them down as well. That’s what happened today, a critical web service, DNS (Domain Name System), was targeted and taken down.
Let’s say someone wants your ice cream to melt.
In this case, why should they bother trying to mess with your refrigerator when they can cut the electricity to the entire city. They don’t care about any of the city and it is easier to shutdown all the electricity than this or that part of it, as it all can be rerouted as long as other parts are up.