Those damn Commies are at it again...

[FTA]

April 18, 2008 (Computerworld Australia) Chinese hackers appear to be readying for an attack on the West scheduled for April 19. The basis of the attack appears to be the recent, and very public, pro-Tibet coverage in Western media organizations.
A Chinese site called Anti-CNN (http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Cable+News+Network+LP+LLLP) is setting out to counteract what it claims are the lies and distortion present in Western news coverage of stories concerning China and Chinese national interests. It is calling for street protests in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom on April 19 (Beijing local time; early evening Friday on the East Coast, or close-of-business on the West).Apparently a group of Chinese hackers calling them selfs the "Red Hacker Alliance" has put out a message on various forums and websites that it's members will be engaging in a 'massive DDoS attack' against cnn.com tomorrow.

The Red Hacker Alliance is known around the nets for attacking computer systems for political reasons. The DOD said a large percent of U.S. Gov systems that were compromised in 07 could be traced back to suspected members of the Red Hacker Alliance.

Usually I enjoy sitting back and watching the mayhem created when these kind of hacking groups announce an attack on a big corporation or media outlet, but I draw the line when these damn dirty communists are involved.
Anyway, it should be interesting to see if they own a botnet powerful enough to drop a site that handles so much traffic(for me anyways)... If they do, it could mean trouble for a lot of people.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9078778&source=rss_topic17

[Jicholls]

Will be interesting to see what cnn do in retaliation.

Anyways , this will probably be a bad idea. The whole thing will just backfire on the Chinese hackers.

[The Pants Party]

Oh no, not CNN.COM!

Seriously, if they were targeting our missile commands to fire at Cuba or something, we could worry, but who gives a shit if CNN's website is down for a while?

[MrMondayNite341]

CNN sucks anyway. As well as the communist chinese.

[GameFreak47]

Why would you hack for your beliefs, that's just stupid...

If it were for money though....:p

[M85A21]

CNN?
But that's my most favourite webs...Meh noone cares.

[CovertDog]

The Commies? Thats so 80's. You not get the memo? They aren't public enemy No. 1 anymore.:p

[Sanction]

They also own about 70% of the US in bonds and whatnot. I say we let them think what they want to. :p

[M85A21]

The Commies? Thats so 80's. You not get the memo? They aren't public enemy No. 1 anymore.:p

Yeah PEno1 are now Gamesavers, Skinheads and Pants PArty, not necessarily in that order.

[CORPSE CRISIS]

CNN sucks anyway. As well as the communist chinese.i dont man..they have made some pretty neat toys that say MADE FROM CHINA ON THE BOTTOM:p

[Jicholls]

i dont man..they have made some pretty neat toys that say MADE FROM CHINA ON THE BOTTOM:p

Hah true that.

[Bolt]

i bet they're government controlled media says we're liars too

[Gigapotts]

The Commies? Thats so 80's. You not get the memo? They aren't public enemy No. 1 anymore.:p Haha, sigging that, Kudos :)


As for the whole attack CNN, i don't give a damn if they attack any news casting site to be honest. Stories on the news nowadays are either completely fabricated, or over exaggerated anyway. :p

[Shinobi273]

They have Republic in their name though... Seriously though, we should probably support the Chinese in the opression of their people. It would be beneficial for us to have their people indoctrinated and uninformed about the world to maintain their low labor costs and reduced buying power. If you think about it, we have to compete with every single middle class Chinese that wants to own anything. Same with Africa, we need to keep them dependant on humanitarian aid so we can maintain control of what resources they have.