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lördag, december 11, 2010

Joining Pro-WikiLeaks Attacks Made Easy








A screenshot of an online application to participate in Anonymous's denial of service attack against companies that cut off services to Wikileaks. This page comes complete with it targeted at PayPal's payment infrastructure. (Click the photo for a larger version). Screenshot: Wired.com

 In a Web 2.0 twist in the ongoing attempts to punish Visa, Mastercard, Amazon and PayPal for cutting off donations to WikiLeaks, those seeking revenge by turning their computers into a traffic-flooding zombie no longer even have to download software. Instead they can just visit the right webpage and let JavaScript, the lingua franca of the interactive web, do the work for them.

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