Five people were arrested yesterday in connection with a spate of online attack last month in support of wikiLeaks. All five are being held in custody at local police stations. They think the five have being involved in the group of hacktivists known as Anonymous, who crippled the websites of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal after those companies cut off financial services to WikiLeaks. The 1,000-strong group of activists launched what they called Operation Payback, vowing to give perceived anti-wikiLeaks companies a “black eye”. A statement is made to the government after arresting those 5 men: it was a sad mistake. They say you can easily arrest individuals but you can’t arrest an ideology and that they won’t rest until their fellow protesters have been released.
I find it rather handsome that those people can do things like that. It is not correct what they do. They hacked Mastercard and visa just because they did not want to pay money anymore at WikiLeaks. I don’t know the reason about that, I did not follow it that good. But on the other hand if they can do stuff like that, they can also find a lot of personal information about anybody and anything. They can search addressed by IP-addressed and then it is getting a little bit out of hand and scary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/27/anonymous-hacking
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Many people who do these actions have issues of free speech and preserving the openness of the net. I think some people are not aware of what will happen if these actions will continue. The people who used LOIC are not hackers but average internet citizens. I think it will be difficult for the police to arrest these people. I think is it not good that Mastercard, Paypal and Amazon denial service to Wikileaks. But it is not certain why they do not service Wikileaks anymore.
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