Paypal is notorious to freeze accounts as they like, and bully people around. They can do this because they know they are big. Now they are starting to force their own political agendas on the world population as well. I've quit my account with them because I want this world to be a better place to live in, than being controlled by a bully who harass people.
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#22Does anyone else keep coming back here because every link on the homepage is light grey because they are visited, but since the site is down it does not show this link as visited. Hehe
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#23To be perfectly honest, the actions of the 'anonymous' are pretty disgusting and it's bullying. A company provides a useful service to the majority of the on-line world and, just because they do something to protect themselves and their identity (there's a lot of people who dislike wikileaks) then this 'collective' decide to disrupt the whole company. Bullying was pathetic in high school and is so much worse in the '…
When basic, well-established press freedoms are being attacked by the US government, working without due process through multinational corporations, it feels a little more like self-defense than bullying.
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#24I suspect we are going to see two major changes over the next few weeks as a direct result of the "cyber-attacks" going on recently. 1. Financial services will re-evaluate the risks of this kind of attack vs. the cost of assigning more resources to guard against it. 2. Governments will finally start taking IT security seriously. The latter is the more interesting, because while banks are generally reasonably clued up…
Governments take IT security very seriously, I don't see where you've seen they don't.
The problem is that you just can't secure a whole infrastructure overnight and that security is very hard.
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#25I fear some naive young US-based Anonymous participants may soon be getting a very rude awakening (if the FBI and Secret Service respond to this by making an example of them).
Edit: downvote me all you like, but you should read the post about what happens when you're busted by the feds (from the hacker crackdown): http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal.txt
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#26Paypal is notorious to freeze accounts as they like, and bully people around. They can do this because they know they are big. Now they are starting to force their own political agendas on the world population as well. I've quit my account with them because I want this world to be a better place to live in, than being controlled by a bully who harass people.
Great. How do I close account with Anon, because I don't want them to infringe on my ability to make payments?
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#27And now thanks to this story Hacker News is participating in the DDOS because we all want to see for ourselves if PayPal is responsive...
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#28I fear some naive young US-based Anonymous participants may soon be getting a very rude awakening (if the FBI and Secret Service respond to this by making an example of them). Edit: downvote me all you like, but you should read the post about what happens when you're busted by the feds (from the hacker crackdown): http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal.txt
Like HN readers who are linked to paypal :)
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#29seems like a correct assessment. SSL still works tho.
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#30What I like most, is that all people click on the link although it says "It's unavailable". Wondering if this has an additional effect on the availability.
Perhaps that's the reason why it's unavailable. ;)