Operation Titstorm

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February 10, 2010

“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

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

One response

vicki

February 10, 2010

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.