The crew over at
Anonymous have spent the last day or so letting everyone know exactly where they stand in the war over
WikiLeaks. The group kicked off
Operation: Payback by targeting companies, governments and public figures that have made it difficult for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to continue their operations. The infamous and nebulous hacker collective launched massive
DDoS attacks against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon, as well as sites representing the Swedish government, Joe Lieberman and Sarah Palin. (Anonymous even went the extra step of attempting to hack Palin's credit card account.) The attacks were made in response to decisions by the two
credit card companies and by
PayPal to cut off payments and donations to the whistleblower site. Palin and Lieberman, meanwhile, have both made public denouncements of the site and its founder. The Swedish government was targeted for seeking to arrest Assange over sexual assault charges. (Seriously, Anonymous? How about we let him go to trial and prove he's not a rapist before we start hacking government websites in his honor.)
A spokesperson for Anonymous, who goes by the name Coldblood, has told the BBC that
Operation: Payback is not over yet. "It's still going strong," he said, "more people are joining, more and more people are downloading the voluntary botnet tool." Coldblood, Anonymous and its supporters are all painting themselves as the protectors of free speech in the conflict over WikiLeaks.
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