“These attacks, in addition to being a misguided effort that doesn’t accomplish very much at all, are incredibly simple to launch and require no technical or hacker skills.”
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2600 Magazine, in a press release condemning the denial of service attacks against PayPal, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, and other entities after those entities took actions against WikiLeaks.
Obviously they are on WikiLeaks’ side, but they bristle so much at the media using the word ‘hackers’ to describe stupid script kiddies running DDOS attacks that they had to issue a press release.
