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How the FBI raided Anonymous

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Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

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post #7

"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all," I think that is one of the most important points of this article.

Where were Wikileaks' servers hosted at the time? The US cops are going to go after the crimes against US businesses on US soil first.

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#13

What's the justification for no-knock raids here?

They're DDOSing websites run by big corporations, so they're obviously terrorists, which means you need to arrest them at gunpoint early in the morning so that you can be sure they won't have time to detonate a suitcase nuke before you can cuff them and get them into the back of the cop car.

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#14
post #7

"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all," I think that is one of the most important points of this article.

Where were Wikileaks' servers hosted at the time? The US cops are going to go after the crimes against US businesses on US soil first.

Those are in fact the only crimes they are likely to have jurisdiction over.

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

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post #7

"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all," I think that is one of the most important points of this article.

Does the FBI even investigate this sort of thing internationally? Does anyone?

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#16
post #7

"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all," I think that is one of the most important points of this article.

Does the FBI even investigate this sort of thing internationally? Does anyone?

Does anyone?

Countries outside America do have law enforcement agencies for the most part, so yes.

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#17

What's the justification for no-knock raids here?

Only one of the reports suggests a door 'busted down'; is that nym known to give reliable, non-embellished testimony? (I can believe that some of the searches might be unnecessarily done that way, but also that there could be exaggeration in pseudonymous reports.)

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#18
post #2

It's funny that Mastercard can't defend against an attack that my home router is capable of defending against. (A big limit on connections per /24 per minute should solve this problem. So will using a smart webserver or frontend proxy that doesn't care how many idle connections there are. Then all you have to worry about is bandwidth saturation rather than your servers crashing.) But the lesson here is, when you visi…

You can get people to participate in DDoS attacks with a malicious website though.

Just use some JS to create image elements, script tags, iframes etc all with sources pointing at the target, should be able to do a few hundred a second at least.

Even trivial to get people to participate without using javascript. Just pop in a hidden iframe with a million tags in the source.

As things move on, I don't think individuals who happen to fire off a few hundred requests at a website should be investigated/prosecuted/etc. Website owners just need to get better at protecting their systems.

Re: How the FBI raided Anonymous

#20
post #7

"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all," I think that is one of the most important points of this article.

Does the FBI even investigate this sort of thing internationally? Does anyone?

Yes and yes, actually. Though the FBI naturally focuses on international actions against US people and companies.
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