08-12-2010, 11:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2010, 12:06 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
David Guyatt Wrote:Mastercard have been brought down by hackers, BBC reports.
I hope they stay down for a LONG TIME!....what goes around, comes around!!!!!!:elefant::aetsch: This is turning into a very interesting WAR. I really think the US will be rather surprised should they extradite Assange......how many government and large corporate websites and computer infrastructure simply stop working or are denied to those who use them....... :tee: The 'playing field' is now being leveled!
Yup...confirmed! It looks like the group that successfully took down the website of Julian Assange's Swiss Bank have claimed another victim. Mastercard.com is down, and Anon_operation just tweeted that it's due to a DDOS attack. Of course, Mastercard is one of the payment services that cut off the ability to donate to Wikileaks:
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass