Only minutes after Twitter disabled the account of Operation Payback, users rushed to help get the hacker organization back online.
At a time when US Politicians are exhibiting an embarrassing inability to work together and an infuriating effort to shut down the free flow of information by stopping Julian Assange at all costs, the Twitter community banded together to get Operation Payback, whose Twitter handle @Anon_Operation was shut down by the site, back on line.
In a deftly slick move, one unaffiliated user who champions the organization, anticipating that @Anon_Operation might get shut down, registered @AnonOperation as a protective precaution, and waited to offer it to the organization as soon as the shut-down came.
The hacker organization registered @AnonOpsNet when @Anon_Operation was disabled and the registrar of @AnonOperations promptly contacted it via public feed to hand over the account.
In a world of crushing bureaucratic failure, it’s refreshing to see a grassroots organization of individuals standing on principle and outwitting both multi-billion dollar organizations and sovereign governments.
Follow @AnonOperation and @AnonOpsNet
December 09, 2010 at 12:56 am, Neoreturn said:
@AnonOperation is already dead. Twitter will be next target according to IRC channel (tomorrow?) the fight is still ongoing!
December 09, 2010 at 8:21 pm, Paul Adams said:
Wow, twitter is just asking for it. I wonder how many LOICs it will take to bring down twitter? It's not exactly hard to see the fail whale as it is. 1? 3?
December 10, 2010 at 11:39 pm, Tcowen said:
You can't rape the willing..
I've worked in the private sector for over 20.yrs as a CompTIA
Certified Instructor & I can tell you one thing for certain.. I sat
in on this little freak-fest called “Operation Payback.” & there's
something just not right about it.
It is laudable & even somewhat suspicious to believe any of these
hardened mission critical systems, designed to handle millions of
requests & simultaneously protect the servers from the outside
influences of the internet were ever in any real danger.
If I were the senior administrator for either Visa, Master Card or
Paypal & suddenly heard that these systems were crippled and
defenseless for hours against the antiquated exploits of a simple TCP
race-condition.?
There would have an instant reaction, with all the fury of a madman
on parade.. any one and every one standing withing 50 feet of those
server farm doors would have been fired immediately and with out
prejudice.
They wouldn't even have been allowed to stop and clear out their
desks.. instant march of shame right out to the parking lot and
escorted off the property.
The only way for those systems to have been brought down within
seconds by this tool called “Loic” is for some one in that server
room to not only have disable the default protections of the
operating system itself.. but they would have had to purposely
disable default settings in the web-services as well..
Now with this in mind one must also look very closely at this new
proposed digital Patriot act legislation being introduced and
championed by Palin & Lieberman.. One could easily come to the
conclusion that this little freak-show known as “Operation Payback..”
is almost too convenient.
December 11, 2010 at 12:10 am, Tcowen said:
Never in the history of international Intelligence have so many organizations rallied, so quickly, to convict a man without trial for forgetting to bring condoms to a party.. Imagine what we could do with even half of the effort & this kind of cooperative lust being applied toward the so called “War of Terror.”