Operation Titstorm

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓  ·  February 10th, 2010  ·  filed under politics, sex

“Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.”

That’s right, “Operation Titstorm” was a success, with the Australian Parliament’s website being felled after receiving “7.5 million hits a second.” Learn more about the attack, and the reasons behind it, here. (via @elliottjustin)

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

One Response to “Operation Titstorm”

  1. vicki Says:

    We call the chinese for their great firewall then so called “democracies” build their own , I fear for the future if we can’t win these battles here and now.

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