On Saturday, there is a strong possibility of Internet activities such as shopping and surfing coming to a halt as a hacking group has threatened to shut down the Net.
“Operation Global Blackout 2012 looks to shut down the Internet for a whole day tomorrow (Saturday) by disabling its core DNS servers, making websites inaccessible,” said Interpol’s Secretary-General, Ronald K. Noble.
Mr. Noble was speaking at the thirteenth D.P. Kohli memorial lecture on “Multijurisdictional Investigation: Operation Unmask” in New Delhi.
According to Mr. Noble, the hacking group, Anonymous, is protesting against several reasons including the crash of Wall Street and irresponsible leaders.
what nonsense is this? I follow an anonymous hacktavist group called @YourAnonNews on twitter and they say that none of the hacker group have planned to shutdown the internet. Its funny how news channels have been repeating this wrong information on two accounts -
1. Internet is too big to be shutdown. Shutting down the DNS servers will require huge resources.
2. Hacker's very playground is the internet. why whould they shoot themselves??
Hacktavists do shutdown a few websites by deploying DDoS attacks though. For protesting. Like the wall street bankers websites or FBI because of the injustice delivered by them
Hackers will have a field day in future in organizing world Bandh by hampering Internet services..that will be the modern way of protest online...however do we have cyberpolicemen ready with their tools equivalent to teargas shells or lathis or pellet shots in the cyberpathway is doubtful.chnology to Lets hope good sense prevails upon people putting technolgy to wrong use wherever they be or whoever it is.
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