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Submitted by ssb3173 250d ago | news

Anonymous Takes Out Go Daddy

The Escapist: You may have noticed that Go Daddy, the largest internet domain registrar and web hosting company in the world, isn't currently online. You can thank Anonymous for that, specifically @AnonymousOwn3r, the "security leader" of the amorphous internet collective, who claimed personal responsibility, independent of Anonymous, for the attack. (Anonymous, Go Daddy, Web)

thebudgetgamer  +   250d ago
Good work taking down small businesses that use it. I'm sure they deserved it.
sikbeta  +   249d ago
Gotta fight the man bro!

:/
fatstarr  +   250d ago
Aint that some shit. hopefully we get a break in my webdev
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Kurylo3d  +   250d ago
Yea this is messed up. How can they claim to be for taking out corruption when they take down everyone. Its like saying your going to kill all terrorists by commiting mass genocide with 1000 nukes.
zag  +   250d ago
lol, I think the idea was to screw up the DNS side of the net so lots of people all over the world and probably themselves can't get to addressees anymore.

bright spark we have here.
360ICE  +   250d ago
Ok, Anon, everyone know you can do things now. When are you going to start doing useful things?
linkprk2584  +   250d ago
wow they have a boring life they dont get a thing for it but still do it
PS3n360  +   250d ago
thats great. My wife and I run a small business that uses go daddy to host our meager website. we make barely enough money to survive as it is. way to go anonymous you sure showed us.
Enigma_2099  +   250d ago
""The attack is not coming from Anonymous coletive , the attack it's coming only from me," he tweeted earlier today. As for why he launched the attack, that remains a bit of a mystery. "I'm taking godaddy down bacause well i'd like to test how the cyber security is safe and for more reasons that i can not talk now," he continued. "I'm not anti go daddy, you guys will undestand because i did this attack""

Because you HAVE NO GOOD REASON for doing this. That's why you can't talk about it. F****** up all these websites because you wanted to "test" something. What a load. I'm surprised he had the balls to claim full responsibility... oh wait, no I'm not. Because he's still hiding his identity. If he really wanted to keep others from taking fault, he'd give himself up. He's still hiding behind all of them, so you know what to do. Start shaking ALL the bushes, and see what falls out!
thehitman  +   250d ago
At the moment I am getting my degree in college and there are many types of hackers. Some hackers actually hack just to show companies their weaknesses so they can fix em before some one who does mean malicious intent doesn't cause more damage. Some get paid for doing that some dont. As he noted he gave no reason behind his actions GoDaddy is a huge provider and I am sure they will be on top of better securing their service after this which could be better for all their customers who they provide for. I know anon has a huge history of doing bad things and some good so im not ready to jump on the hate train.
Myst  +   249d ago
White-hatted hackers as they were called I believe are the ones that work with companies to show vulnerabilities. The Black hatted hackers are the malicious ones that do it for their own personal agenda or gain.
Soldierone  +   250d ago
What did GoDaddy say or do that "supports censorship"? The fact you can't host a porn site through them? Too bad, you can't do that in a lot of places. The fact it says no illegal activity such as sharing copyright files? Well guess what, its against the law.

Other than that this is rather stupid. If you want to fight censorship go take down Fox and CNN and replace it with REAL news for a day, not just the filtered crap they want us to see.
A7XEric  +   250d ago
Apparently they weren't hacked. They had a server outage.

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