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Anonymous," a group of hackers perhaps best known for their attacks on the Church of Scientology, have appointed themselves the protectors of Wikileaks. To that end, they've begun a full-scale attack on those who have harmed Wikileaks in the past. This is no cute hacker's mission--it's a full-on crusade that has already taken down Mastercard.com.
A hacker group that calls itself "Anonymous" says it took the Visa Web site down today in retaliation for the credit card company suspending payments to the WikiLeaks site.
These are not attacks and we are not hackers. Had you come to our irc server and spoken with us like several other journalists have you’d know that. These are, we believe, a form of protest. One factual error you made is that we NEVER took down mastercards payment system. migs.mastercard.com its payment gate way was not touched. Instead we chose to “Shoot our Lazers” at there digital store front, in a successful attempt at the worlds first “digital sit in”.
You’ll pardon me for using to many “quotes” but as was said at the PDFleaks conference yesterday we don’t have the vocabulary to talk about this sort of thing yet. This is some thing new, a prequel and a proof of concept.
That concept was to see if we, having minimal resources and a relatively small group of people, could draw the national medias attention to Wikileaks and the freedom of speech/information that we so strongly believe in. Which, seeing as how you have written this article was a success. We’ll continue on several fronts, the DDOS attacks which will probably increase, Operation Leakspin which is an attempt to disseminate the revelations brought about by the leak to the masses, Operation Daylight which is organizing more traditional protests, TheTruthIsRevolutionary and efforts like the QR initiative.
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