Kevin Senjaya Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 World media is full of publications about the threats by Anonymous hackers’ group, who promises to close the Internet on March 31.The group posted a statement on Pastebin earlier this week, which says that the group plans to attack 13 DNS servers that ensure URLs such as google.co.uk are translated into the IP addresses that host these websites."To protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the internet down," the group said in the statement.Anonymous believes if it can successfully take those root servers down for long enough, "DNS as we currently use it would cease to function, and the web would become at least temporarily inaccessible for most of its users".As pcadvisor.co.uk writes referring to the statement nobody will be able to perform a domain name lookup, thus, disabling the HTTP internet, which is, after all, the most widely used function of the web. Anybody entering http://www.google.com or any other URL, will get an error page, thus, they will think the internet is down, which is, close enough," the group added."Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to 'kill' the internet, we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most."Anonymous did not detail how long it intended the blackout to last, instead simply saying "It may only lasts one hour, maybe more, maybe even a few days. No matter what, it will be global. It will be known".Source: http://times.am/?l=en&p=4916 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 6, 2012 Administrator Share Posted March 6, 2012 We had something like this in mid feb, but I guess it's an update as there was no mention of any date on that article. :)I still feel it's fake. But lets see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digimon Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 We had something like this in mid feb, but I guess it's an update as there was no mention of any date on that article. :)I still feel it's fake. But lets see.its probably fake not to mention darn near impossable to pull off your best bet is to take out the root dns servers and try to keep them offline however they have such redundancy and junk on them it be crazycounting all the backups servers theirs over 100 youed need to take them all out at once and keep them all out for long enough for all the other consumer dns entrys to expire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosticles Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Fake im saying, but i bet anonymous (possibly helped by lulzsec etc) could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eqagunn Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Would they really be able to produce such amount of request traffic to deny service of master servers?I doubt it, because these servers have a whole internet to cope with everyday, but hey, we'll have to wait for it to find out.Unless they have something else except DDoS in mind this time... nah they don't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadlyVoid Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I doubt that this will actually happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babelpatcher Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 i hope this will happen, as soon as possible :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibia Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 whooaa.. a little OOT here, @babelpatcher and @Kevin are Indonesian? Never thought there're many mates here in this forum.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Sounds like the idiotic poorly thought out childish nonsense that those Anonymous wankers would dream up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEMan Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Don't think Lulzsec will be helping http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/lulzsec-snitch/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowx Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Obviously a fake by the goverment that want you to be blinded from the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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