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Kiss the Internet Goodbye – “Cyberwars” Over Wiki-Leaks Begin

Posted on December 8, 2010 by willyloman

“Sites for Visa, PayPal, Sen. Lieberman also targeted”

(attacking the site of Joe Lieberman? The guy who has multiple “kill the internet” bills on his desk? Oh there’s a good idea.)

“Anonymous” has dubbed their cyber warfare campaign “Operation Payback,” threatening to “fire” on any entity that attempts to censor WikiLeaks.
Service to mastercard.com was unavailable at time of this writing. The website for the Swedish prosecutor’s office was also offline, as was a site for the lawyer representing Assange’s accusers.”
Others to suffer downtime this week include PayPal’s blog, EveryDNS – the domain name service provider that pulled WikiLeaks off it’s .org address — and Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) .gov website. Lieberman’s staff was responsible for prompting Amazon.com to take WikiLeaks off its US-based cloud servers.
Researchers with Panda Security have been tracking the wave of attacks, blow-for-blow.
In recent days, the online to-do over WikiLeaks has been called the world’s “first serious infowar” and a “war for control of the Internet.” Raw Story

There you have it. Banks, PayPal, commerce, prosecutors, victims’ lawyers, and even Joe Lieberman… all being attacked just in time to justify shutting down the internet on our behalf. All because Julian Assange decided to turn himself in to the authorities for a crime that had just been filed a few hours prior and in a nation-state that is just as corrupt as the U.S. and certainly a partner in the criminal Global War on Terror. Now there is a thousand file sharing sites that have put up his encrypted “data bomb” and a couple hundred other dissent sites that have set up mirrors for all that “truth” that he has been leaking one little bit at a time. What do you think is going to happen to those sites once the shit hits the fan? Well, they will all be shut down of course for national security reasons. And the group that is doing all this hacking? “Anonymous”? Haven’t figured that one out yet? Ever heard of Al CIAdah? Same thing.