Home Office website taken down by Anonymous

That action has probably ruined the Easter holidays of a few civil servants for what seems like a fairly nugatory benefit.

It's probably also worth pointing out that the Tweet purporting to be from Anonymous isn't really specific enough. It's demanding that Britain doesn't extradite to America without evidence - that's already the situation. Perhaps what they actually mean is that the weight of evidence required isn't sufficient and that the Treaty is not fairly balanced for both parties - if that were the case then they'd probably have a point but instead it looks like they're simply demanding something that already exists which makes them look somewhat ill-informed about their position... I'm aware that there's a character limit on Twitter and it's hard to make a pithy and eloquent proposition within such constraints, that would be just one of the reasons why it's less than ideal for making serious points. I'm no fan of the Treaty and have said as much more than once but I'd prefer to see it criticised properly and accurately rather than hyperbole being used.
 
Castiel said:
I agree that the 'snooping' proposals are outrageous, but not that anonymous taking down the portal is affecting the public or effective.....it may get people talking, but they were doing that anyway.

Seems a bit of a pointless exercise, they may have been better using their time in other ways or bringing down something that people actually care about.
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Maybe pointless but it probably only too 5 second, someone just types the URL into their application and the hit was hit with every known hack in a few seconds.. And the hack was probably just a default password
 
edscdk said:
Maybe pointless but it probably only too 5 second, someone just types the URL into their application and the hit was hit with every known hack in a few seconds..
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I got a bit of a sore head reading that...... and I still couldn't work out what you were trying to say.....:p
 
Heliospherez said:
It's no surprise that these types of "attacks" are getting more and more common, as no-one in power seems to listen to what the people are saying anymore.

And seeing as Joe public around the world can't even peacefully protest anymore without being kettled, moved or sprayed with something - it looks like the only way to retaliate is by electronic methods.
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No, the people involved in this sort of thing don't represent the general public. They are just disrupting the general public to create attention that is out of proportion with their small numbers, just like rioters and occupy.
 
semi-pro waster said:
That action has probably ruined the Easter holidays of a few civil servants for what seems like a fairly nugatory benefit.
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More likely it's ruined the Easter holidays for whoever is oncall for the outsourced IT company who support it (and their managers).

It's probably also worth pointing out that the Tweet purporting to be from Anonymous isn't really specific enough. It's demanding that Britain doesn't extradite to America without evidence - that's already the situation. Perhaps what they actually mean is that the weight of evidence required isn't sufficient and that the Treaty is not fairly balanced for both parties - if that were the case then they'd probably have a point but instead it looks like they're simply demanding something that already exists which makes them look somewhat ill-informed about their position... I'm aware that there's a character limit on Twitter and it's hard to make a pithy and eloquent proposition within such constraints, that would be just one of the reasons why it's less than ideal for making serious points. I'm no fan of the Treaty and have said as much more than once but I'd prefer to see it criticised properly and accurately rather than hyperbole being used.
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Agreed.
 
Pointless action by a bunch of geeky nerds who don’t represent anybody. They can carry on wasting their time and it won’t get them anywhere.
 
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