Re: 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack

["Brance Amussen" <brance () jhu edu>]

Definitely glad this patriots can spell... 


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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:06 AM
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Subject: [funsec] 'Patriotic' hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks attack

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/29/5544493-patriotic-hacker-cla
ims-credit-for-wikileaks-attack

A single hacker is taking credit for the "mass distributed denial of
service attack" that threatened to take down WikiLeaks shortly before
its scheduled post of thousands of classified memos between U.S.
diplomats.

At approximately the same time WikiLeaks alerted its Twitter followers
to the DDoS attack, "Jester," a self-proclaimed "hacktivist for good,"
sent this message from his Twitter account:

    @th3j35t3r (Jester) www.wikileaks.org- TANGO DOWN - INDEFINITLEY -
    for threatening the lives of our troops and 'other assets'

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