Velvet Attack: Anonymous' Poland hack stirs debate on international censorship ...
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Anonymous has struck again, this time the victim is the Polish government, targeted over its stated intent to sign The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, at a January 26th talk in Tokyo. Imagine it as an international censorship superstructure that would dwarf SOPA and PIPA in ambition and scope, gradually bringing all governments together in one vast censorship orgy. Late last night Anonymous tweeted , “The
canons are being loaded and we are commencing ATTACK. ” The
canons, of course, refer to the Lulz
Cannon, or Low Orbit Ion
Cannon, which launches DDoS attacks, a controversial but often highly effective form of digital protest in which hundreds or thousands of computers are used to bombard a site with...
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