WikiLeaks supporters' group abandons cyber attacks. Anon lanuches new entirely diff. Op. - Polidicks

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101211/tc_nm/us_wikileaks_activists_strategy[/url] [quote=Associated Press]LONDON (Reuters) – A loose grouping of cyber activists supporting WikiLeaks has abandoned its strategy of online attacks on organizations seen as hostile to the site in favor of spreading the leaked documents far and wide online. Internet activists operating under the name "Anonymous" temporarily brought down this week the websites of credit card giants MasterCard and Visa -- both of which had stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks. The United States, enraged and embarrassed by WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, has leant on organizations from Amazon to online payments service PayPal -- which have now withdrawn services to WikiLeaks. In an overnight blog post, Anonymous announced a change of strategy, saying it now aimed to publish parts of the confidential U.S. diplomatic cables as widely as possible and in ways that made them as hard as possible to trace. The cyber activists briefly brought down PayPal's official blog by bombarding it with requests this week but failed to harm retail and Web-hosting giant Amazon, which withdrew its services to WikiLeaks more than a week ago. "We have, at best, given them a black eye. The game has changed. When the game changes, so too must our strategies," said the blog post announcing "Operation: Leakspin." The activists are now encouraging supporters to search through leaked cables on the WikiLeaks site and publish summaries of ones that have been least exposed, labeling them so they are hard to find by any authority seeking to quash them. "Use misleading tags, everything from "Tea Party" to "Bieber." Post snippets of the leaks everywhere," the blog said, referring to the U.S. grassroots conservative movement and the 16-year-old Canadian pop phenomenon Justin Bieber. Similar strategies have been used in the past on YouTube and the now defunct Napster by users seeking to share video and music while dodging copyright crackdowns. The activists had previously been using denial of service attacks, in which they bombarded the Web servers of the perceived enemies of WikiLeaks with requests that crashed the sites, in an operation named "Operation Payback."[/quote] A much better strategy in my opinion.

Wow who would have thought spreading the important part of wikileaks more was a good idea?

This is almost as entertaining as when Anon took on Scientology. Grabbing popcorn.

Oh this is gonna be fun. thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSx_N18TWjs[/media]

[QUOTE=demoguy08;26621377]This is almost as entertaining as when Anon took on Scientology. Grabbing popcorn.[/QUOTE] Except it actually has a legitimate purpose.

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Uh, okay... At least it's more productive than vandalizing websites, and it will piss fewer people off. I still doubt the fruition of this plan, or anything else done by "anonymous".

They will get bored of this in a week and move on to something else.

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[quote]A loose grouping of cyber activists supporting WikiLeaks...[/quote] I think it's always hilarious how they describe groups like these. "Cyber activists" Although I agree this is a much better approach. This way the internet doesn't get a bad name for being a place for "hackers" and "cyber criminals".

Operation: Leakspin :ohdear:

[QUOTE=leach139;26621595]Operation: Leakspin :ohdear:[/QUOTE] [U][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnE4vF9CQ4[/media] Sweet! [/U]

Wow good job on the name.

[QUOTE=RayDark;26621521]It won't work, since most of anon is 12 year old children who can, at most, run a program overnight and think they are doing something good.[/QUOTE] This isn't exactly a hard thing to do, even posting full cables (instead of linking back to them) when discussing them on forums would help their goal.

"Operation: Leakspin." Fellow FP'S Time to bnad with our brothers! [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] the internet is the 8th continent. and we are the people of the 8th continent.

[QUOTE=Jsm;26621879]This isn't exactly a hard thing to do, even posting full cables (instead of linking back to them) when discussing them on forums would help their goal.[/QUOTE] Yes but it is certainly more time consuming than LOIC.

[QUOTE=leach139;26621595]Operation: Leakspin :ohdear:[/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly...

What ? Anonops irc: "-Global- HEY PEOPLE. LOICs are fixed now. New settings: Server 91.121.92.84, Attack will start at 1.5k hive minimum"

[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26621899]"Operation: Leakspin." Fellow FP'S Time to bnad with our brothers! [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] the internet is the 8th continent. and we are the people of the 8th continent.[/QUOTE] 4Chan ain't our bros, bro.

I may join in on this plan since it isn't blatantly illegal, childish or dumb.

This isn't really going to do anything anything at all.

Yeah! Stick it to the... man?

[QUOTE=RayDark;26621934]Yes but it is certainly more time consuming than LOIC.[/QUOTE] Time isn't an issue for anon. If there's motivation it will happen. Scientology protests still happened a year after it started, to give you an idea. [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;26622061]4Chan ain't our bros, bro.[/QUOTE] He didn't even mention 4chan.

[QUOTE=sami-elite;26622497] He didn't even mention 4chan.[/QUOTE] If it has anything to do with "anonymous" or the ilk, it most likely has some of it's fingers in 4Chan.

This is really what they should have been doing in the first place.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;26621550]I think it's always hilarious how they describe groups like these. "Cyber activists" Although I agree this is a much better approach. This way the internet doesn't get a bad name for being a place for "hackers" and "cyber criminals".[/QUOTE] The BBC insists on calling them "hacktivists" What I like is how the media assumes that this means there won't be any more DDOS attacks. You know, like how there isn't any more violence in Northern Ireland.

[quote]"Use misleading tags, everything from "Tea Party" to "Bieber."[/quote] Hahaha. Oh god

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;26622913]If it has anything to do with "anonymous" or the ilk, it most likely has some of it's fingers in 4Chan.[/QUOTE] Some, not all, if any.

[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26621899]"Operation: Leakspin." Fellow FP'S Time to bnad with our brothers! [editline]11th December 2010[/editline] the internet is the 8th continent. and we are the people of the 8th continent.[/QUOTE] Facepunch has no brothers, but you have the spelling and obvious blind follower aspect that most of 4chan has so you go right ahead.

[QUOTE=goon165;26621405]Oh this is gonna be fun. thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSx_N18TWjs[/media][/QUOTE] Use this instead. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyf9O2ZlvCg[/media]