Anonymous takes down GoDaddy - Millions of sites down

[cgipson1]

GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous claims responsibility - Tech Talk - CBS News

thoughts?

 

[Derrel]

"Those bast&rds!"

 

[12sndsgood]

cant say im very fond of them if thats true.

 

[ceejtank]

I like anonymous.. they took down scientology for a bit which was awesome.

don't know why they'd target godaddy.

 

[cgipson1]

Because godaddy supported the antipiracy bill... that's why!

Pissed off all of the thieves out there apparently!

Hopefully you don't support this crap! This is terrorist activity no different than 9-11. The difference is that it is a huge monetary hit, instead of people being killed.


This pisses me off because two of my remote desktop / communication sites are on Godaddy...

 

[GraceNFaith]

Wow! Don't want get in the cross hairs of anonymous...

 

[sm4him]

I like anonymous.. they took down scientology for a bit which was awesome.

don't know why they'd target godaddy.

Because godaddy supported SOPA.

EDIT Charlie beat me to that, but it didn't take ninja skills. I was busy discovered that my keyboard is now completely dysfunctional. I can only make caps with the caps lock on, not with the shift key--and i cannot make any of the 'shift plus key' combos work--like a plus sign, or an asterisk. Or a colon, which would have been nice to have after the word edit.

 

[ceejtank]

Because godaddy supported the antipiracy bill... that's why!

Pissed off all of the thieves out there apparently!

Hopefully you don't support this crap! This is terrorist activity no different than 9-11. The difference is that it is a huge monetary hit, instead of people being killed.


This pisses me off because two of my remote desktop / communication sites are on Godaddy...

That's unfortunate. I don't support them, but when they took scientology on I was pleased haha. If you're apart of anonymous it'd be my assumption that you would pirate things, so they are probably pissed. Kind of childish.

 

[The_Traveler]

And my hosted sites are down.
Just spent xty minutes calling people.

 

[Overread17 5]

Bleh Anon is a wildcard and sometimes they do some funny or neat things; but I agree with the above points that its cyber crime which is the majority of their game. The result for the rest of us is that their antics often end up with even stronger laws which imped upon the rest of us just to contain the handful of them.

 

[cgipson1]

I used to think hacking was cool back in the late 70's / early 80's on my little ol' 300 baud modem... but we never did anything destructive. Would even leave notes for admins about what holes they needed to patch...

but this is not COOL!

 

[sm4him]

hostgator just tweeted; 'We've heard elephants never forget but GoDaddy seems to be experiencing quite a stampede. 30% off your 1st invoice! #reliablehost<promocode'.
wow, that's just cold. :twisted:

 

[Overread17 5]

I used to think hacking was cool back in the late 70's / early 80's on my little ol' 300 baud modem... but we never did anything destructive. Would even leave notes for admins about what holes they needed to patch...

but this is not COOL!

I've read that a good few people have landed themselves coding jobs for banks and the like by breaking in and then showing up where the code problems were.

The other thing to remember about "anon" is that whilst they use a singular name and whilst there might be some core "Anon" cult/group they are for the most part not a unique organisation. Indeed it seems to be more a protest name random hackers adopt for certain situations and I'm sure there are many "fake anon" groups out there (especially if you believe their claim that even Anon don't know who the other Anon people are).

 

[jamesbjenkins]

Great. My blog site is down. Thanks, cowardly, tiny, pimple-faced nerds! You're really cool.

 

[Dao]

It was not Anonymous, it was from a single person (also related to Anonymous)

He twitted and asked the news to change that the attack is from him, not from Anonymous.
https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245227793334546432

https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245217519424634881



Either case, I thought Godaddy should have something already prepared to mitigate DDoS attack especially their name servers.