EDL Website Hacked and Taken Offline by Anonymous Hacktivists

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Amaury, Aug 21, 2013.

  1. Amaury Chaser

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    Haven't heard of them in a while.


     
    Amaury, Aug 21, 2013
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  2. Iskandar King of Conquerors

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    Well, from what I've just read about what the EDL is, I wouldn't say I'm sorry for them being hacked, but I supposed sending out those member addresses and such to people could very possibly put some people in danger, since those they're against could go after them now. I don't know, sometimes the people hit are the ones that seem way to extreme is what they do or think, but at the same time, Anonymous goes too far with what they send out. They're putting people's lives at risk
     
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  3. Glen Returned from the dead

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    Sheesh, Anonymous at it again huh?
    With the way that technology is progressing, it doesn't surprise me at all about all the things they do, and this one doesn't surprise me either. Chances are if Anonymous warns a company that they're going to be hacked, then they will be hacked. I've never heard of the EDL, but from what I can gather from those pages It's pretty big, so I hope the matter is resolved quickly.
     
    Glen, Aug 22, 2013
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  4. Technic☆Kitty Hmm

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    Okay so, without looking too into it ... EDL basically opposed Islamism. I find that highly intolerant.

    Is it wrong to say that I'm glad Anonymous attacked the group? I really don't care because looking back at most of their attacks I find myself fully supporting Anonymous. I wouldn't necessarily call it 'hacking' though. It's a pretty simplistic form of attack. DDoS, or distributed denial of service. The group used this method to send hundreds of thousands of requests over a short period of time, for a length of time that's set solely to their discretion. That is, they could stop it whenever they see fit. In this method, all those requests overload the server hosting the website and cause it display an error message as no data can be accessed during the overload.

    This is why I say that this method isn't necessarily hacking. Hacking would be more like what happened to the Playstation Network. Causing a website to be unavailable is one of the basic methods of attack.

    Anyway, haven't seen an Anonymous attack in quite a while. It's also nice to see them keeping up the good fight.
     
    Technic☆Kitty, Aug 22, 2013
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