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struggle4progress

(118,297 posts) Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:10 PM Nov 2012

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'Next to zero chance' of getting caught: Boasts of 'Anonymous' computer hackers who brought down [View all]

Mastercard and Paypal in Wikileaks protest
By Eddie Wrenn
PUBLISHED: 07:51 EST, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 09:53 EST, 26 November 2012

... Prosecutor Sandip Patel said online forums contained instruction manuals for Anonymous supporters to join 2010 attacks and evade capture ...

The campaign originally targeted music industry bodies to avenge their anti-piracy stance, but the gang began to focus on firms who refused to process payments to Julian Assange's Wikileaks organisation ...

Anyone who tried to visit the sites was directed to a webpage displaying the message: 'You've tried to bite the Anonymous hand. You angered the hive and now you are being stung' ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238601/Boasts-Anonymous-hackers-brought-Mastercard-Paypal-Wikileaks-protest.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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'Next to zero chance' of getting caught: Boasts of 'Anonymous' computer hackers who brought down [View all] struggle4progress Nov 2012 OP

Anonymous hacker called Nerdo caused 'enormous economic harm' to PayPal after it refused struggle4progress Nov 2012 #1

Good. I'm sick of playing nice with psychopaths. EOTE Nov 2012 #2

UK has some really 'stylin' perpwalkers! MADem Nov 2012 #3

Here, too, everybody usually cleans up nice when they got a date with the judge struggle4progress Nov 2012 #4

Mastercard, Paypal et al. are self-appointed financial assassins snot Nov 2012 #5

I thought the government asked -ordered?- them to withhold payments. randome Nov 2012 #7

The govt asks for things every day that they shd have to get a warrant to get snot Nov 2012 #11

Anonymous is one of the few reasons I am proud of my generation. nt Comrade_McKenzie Nov 2012 #6

Does that include when they mis-identified a child molester? randome Nov 2012 #8

Not a fan of Robin Hood, eh? GeorgeGist Nov 2012 #9

Yeah, the Eternal Defenders of the Status Quo and All Existing Authorities wanted the Sheriff of Zorra Nov 2012 #10

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