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**Rasklad** · 08-12-2010, 10:46 PM

Hopefully, someone will "leak" the identity of this so called hacker, and he or she can see how funny they are in prison.

Matt

Edit: BTW, your link is broken.

Indeed. This kind of thing has no legitimate purpose:

Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback'
December 08, 2010 5:12 PM

The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email.

Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks – have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin’s personal credit card accounts.

. . . Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback' - Political Punch

I don't care if she's a politician with whom many may disagree or discredit...she's entitled to privacy regarding her personal credit card information for obvious reasons and so is the card issuer from the kinds of fraud that can come from identity theft before they catch on that the number has been leaked and/or hassles of changing the account information. As for any private citizens who get their personal information released, that's even worse given the harms are harder to correct by the time they are realised, lesser economic circumstances, etc.

It's also perfectly within the rights of a private companies like MasterCard, Amazon.com and PayPal to decline to services to Wikileaks. They aren't government agencies and can set their business standards and with whom they'll service within the confines of the law. For example, this website's server does not allow hosting of pornography and if our site did so, we'd lose it as a server. Does that mean we can post porn and feel entitled to disrupt the server's business with cyberattacks if they refuse to allow us to do so? Not IMO. If that's what we want to post, then it's up to us to go find a service that will allow us to host porn. Also targeted in the attacks is the lawyer representing the two Swedish women who have accused Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual assault. So lawyers can't do their jobs anymore on behalf of their clients if they have any claims against Assange and/or wikileaks?

These people if and when detected need long stints in prison.

08-12-2010, 10:46 PM	#21
Rasklad Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 390 Senior Member	Hopefully, someone will "leak" the identity of this so called hacker, and he or she can see how funny they are in prison. Matt Edit: BTW, your link is broken. Indeed. This kind of thing has no legitimate purpose: Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback' December 08, 2010 5:12 PM The website and personal credit card information of former Gov. Sarah Palin were cyber-attacked today by Wikileaks supporters, the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate tells ABC News in an email. Hackers in London apparently affiliated with “Operation Payback” – a group of supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks – have tried to shut down SarahPac and have disrupted Sarah and Todd Palin’s personal credit card accounts. . . . Exclusive: Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback' - Political Punch I don't care if she's a politician with whom many may disagree or discredit...she's entitled to privacy regarding her personal credit card information for obvious reasons and so is the card issuer from the kinds of fraud that can come from identity theft before they catch on that the number has been leaked and/or hassles of changing the account information. As for any private citizens who get their personal information released, that's even worse given the harms are harder to correct by the time they are realised, lesser economic circumstances, etc. It's also perfectly within the rights of a private companies like MasterCard, Amazon.com and PayPal to decline to services to Wikileaks. They aren't government agencies and can set their business standards and with whom they'll service within the confines of the law. For example, this website's server does not allow hosting of pornography and if our site did so, we'd lose it as a server. Does that mean we can post porn and feel entitled to disrupt the server's business with cyberattacks if they refuse to allow us to do so? Not IMO. If that's what we want to post, then it's up to us to go find a service that will allow us to host porn. Also targeted in the attacks is the lawyer representing the two Swedish women who have accused Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual assault. So lawyers can't do their jobs anymore on behalf of their clients if they have any claims against Assange and/or wikileaks? These people if and when detected need long stints in prison.
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