What really gets me about these attacks is that they are having an impact on the sites. Give me a damn break, these are scriptkiddies doing a voluntary DDoS attack, not the orchestrated ‘botnet attacks against WikiLeaks. My hosting service sloughs these things off all the time because of some of the sites they host, and these major financial service companies can’t deal with them? Who the hell are they hosting with – The Grace L. Ferguson Internet Hosting (and Storm Door Company)? [Ancient Bob Newhart reference from before he had a TV show]

The corporate jerks have out-sourced their Internet services to the lowest bidder, and they probably have few, if any, IT people on staff.

“People” are saying that the Chinese are the most probable source for the ‘botnet attacks, as they were unhappy about the revelations about their North Korea relations coming out at such an unsettled time.

You have to wonder that none of these fools looked a calendar and said, we aren’t doing anything risky during the Christmas season.

Normally, I wouldn’t condone this sort of thing, but I actually think it’s justified in this case (since many of the targets have behaved, or are behaving, illegally against WikiLeaks). *shrug* Besides, anyone who who shuts down that stupid cow Palin’s site should get medals IMNSHO! 😆 It may not be legal, but it is Justice! 😛

Just BTW, if a company the size of Visa (and Amazon, MasterCard, Paypal, etc) can be shut down for a day by a relatively simple DDoS attack by mostly teenagers, I have no idea what they are paying their IT dep’t for, they are morons and the US is so totally screwed! Never mind worrying about China! LOL If this is an example, China probably have had complete mirror dumps of most US corp & Gov sites for ages! 😆 Too funny! 😆 What Maroons! 😀 Amazon have decided that the loss of revenue for a day is incentive to put WikiLeaks back up! Ahhh yes… The Power of the All Mighty Dollar! Amazon (and others) will happily screw the law, but when it comes to loosing profits…! 😈

Operation Payback: Hacktivists for WikiLeaks

Assange supporters attack Visa website

Amazon Hosting WikiLeaks Again, for Now

And to think I was getting bored! 😆

There has to be a war so Obama can prove he’s a real Republican in Dem-ouflage.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that the outrage over how much damage Wikileaks is going to do to America is as manufactured as the outrage over how much damage Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction would do to America. The question is, what is the desired end game of this manufactured outrage? Clearly it’s not capturing Assange and putting him into Gitmo, that could be fairly easily done just by asking MI-5 politely. Assange may be able to hide from journalists but in heavily-surveilled Britain, which has more CCTV cameras monitoring its population than the rest of the world combined, it’s basically impossible for someone of his profile to hide from the government. We know what the end game of the manufactured outrage over Saddam’s imaginary weapons of mass destruction was — the invasion of Iraq. But you can’t invade Wikileaks…

— Badtux the Paranoid Penguin

Apparently Treasury got to his Swiss bank and they have frozen his accounts, just like PayPal did with the Dutch non-profit that supports WikiLeaks. The thoroughly absurd excuses that are coming from these businesses are really tiresome. The Swiss bank “just discovered” that he doesn’t live in Geneva? Has anyone frozen Roman Polanski’s accounts? Nice bit of consistency there.

The bit about Congresscritter King supporting the IRA really ticks me off. The IRA came closer than anyone else in eliminating me during one of their campaigns in London. After all the things I had done, to be killed while shopping would have been really embarrassing at the funeral. What kind of dangerous mission is buying a Christmas present for your Mother? I have no desire for people to be maudlin at my funeral, but I would appreciate an absence of snickering.

ROTFL!

To be ignored by the US Government, Assange would have to do something truly pernicious and highly illegal… torture, unleashing attacks that terrorize thousands of civilians, etc. As far as I can tell, nothing he has done is actually illegal for him to do, even if the same act might be illegal for an American citizen… so of course they go after him, and the law be damned.

Pursuing him is pure, unadulterated harassment. But in this day and age, that might be good enough to assure him an indefinite prison term. These are not the glory days of the rule of law.

It’d be funny if… hmmmm… it… wasn’t… so…errrrmmm… funny?! 😉 LMAO (Yeah… still laughing!!)