MasterCard DOWN: MasterCard.com Hacked By WikiLeaks Supporters With DDOS Attack

[UtahApocalypse]

I think a DDoS is more akin to a mass boycott/protest outside of a physical store. Does it make shopping at the store very uncomfortable, and potentially drive away business? Sure. But as long as the protesters are not completely denying service to customers who would come in anyway, then it's not an act of aggression. Similarly, it's not like the MasterCard in my wallet can't conduct transactions because the website is down.

MasterCard has now reported (according to UK Guardian Newspaper.) that indeed its SecureCode processing server has also now been affected making Master cards almost impossible to use.

One thing though that needs clarification, here and for sure in the media:

DDoS is NOT hacking!!

As a matter of fact; Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and the thousands of bloggers that are trying to "reach" mastercard.com are PART of the ongoing attack. All DDos does is overflows a given server with waaaayyy too much data for it to process at a time. Was RPF "hacked" on MoneyBomb days that caused the page to become slow or unresponsive? NO. Anyone calling these DDoS "attacks" as hacking has no clue of what they are talking about.

 

[crazyfacedjenkins]

For all you submissive, masochist boot-lickers, who get off by having corporate America clamp your nuts in a vice while making you eat your own shit: do you sleep easy at night knowing that all your precious "choices" folded like lawn chairs? Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Amazon, etc. where's your free market of choices to come and save the day?

 

[aravoth]

I can't believe some of the shit I'm reading.

Corporations are not average businesses, as the require a government mandate to exist. A mandate, which exempts them from the same restrictions applied to smaller entities.

As to anonymous intitating force against a private property owner, so what?
You know who else was a private property owner? King Gerorge III. Am I advocating violence against private property holders in general? Hell no, but coporations are not exactly "mamma joe's donuts".

As I pointed out in a previous post, Mastercard has colluded with government institutions in order to DEPRIVE people like you and me of thier own private property. And you think that standing out in front of an office building with a sign in your hand is going to stop them from doing that?

Get your fucking permit so you can walk down the street holding a sign. Be sure to stay in your free speech zone while your at it. Hopefully a private corporation contracted by the government doesn't send in a security force to crack your head open, while congress is passing more and more legislation that fucks you over.

The government loves controlled protests.

God damn window lickers

 

[crazyfacedjenkins]

I can't believe some of the shit I'm reading.

Corporations are not average businesses, as the require a government mandate to exist. A mandate, which exempts them from the same restrictions applied to smaller entities.

As to anonymous intitating force against a private property owner, so what?
You know who else was a private property owner? King Gerorge III. Am I advocating violence against private property holders in general? Hell no, but coporations are not exactly "mamma joe's donuts".

As I pointed out in a previous post, Mastercard has colluded with government institutions in order to DEPRIVE people like you and me of thier own private property. And you think that standing out in front of an office building with a sign in your hand is going to stop them from doing that?

Get your fucking permit so you can walk down the street holding a sign. Be sure to stay in your free speech zone while your at it. Hopefully a private corporation contrcted by the government doesn't send in a security force to crack your head open, while congress is passing more and more legislation that fucks you over.

The government loves controlled protests.

God damn window lickers

HAHAHA!! Exactly.

 

[Todd]

I don't support this cyber attack. But I can't help but smile when I think that the same methods of deceptive behavior befall an organization that uses coercion when it's convenient.

 

[FunkBuddha]

Mastercard.com is still down. It's been down for what, 8 hours now?

 

[RCA]

can't say they weren't warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqc8bnvvhq&feature=player_embedded

hells yeah!!!

video has been disabled on YouTube.

 

[reduen]

I don't support this cyber attack. But I can't help but smile when I think that the same methods of deceptive behavior befall an organization that uses coercion when it's convenient.

+1

 

[tremendoustie]

MasterCard has now reported (according to UK Guardian Newspaper.) that indeed its SecureCode processing server has also now been affected making Master cards almost impossible to use.

Hehe .. well, I'm definitely shedding no tears for them.

One thing though that needs clarification, here and for sure in the media:

DDoS is NOT hacking!!

As a matter of fact; Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and the thousands of bloggers that are trying to "reach" mastercard.com are PART of the ongoing attack. All DDos does is overflows a given server with waaaayyy too much data for it to process at a time. Was RPF "hacked" on MoneyBomb days that caused the page to become slow or unresponsive? NO. Anyone calling these DDoS "attacks" as hacking has no clue of what they are talking about.

Is shopping at a store a violating of property rights? No. Is filling the store with a crowd of clones so nobody else can shop there an infringement of property rights? Yes.

Now, those who point out that mastercard has violated private property rights in the past are correct. That's the angle that's a potentially legitimate justification. The question is whether they've been aggressive to the point where their property could reasonably considered stolen.

 

[tremendoustie]

I don't support this cyber attack. But I can't help but smile when I think that the same methods of deceptive behavior befall an organization that uses coercion when it's convenient.

That's more or less how I feel.

 

[puppetmaster]

I don't support this cyber attack. But I can't help but smile when I think that the same methods of deceptive behavior befall an organization that uses coercion when it's convenient.

I do...guess I am becoming more anarchist everyday...FU bankers

 

[specsaregood]

DDoS is NOT hacking!!

As a matter of fact; Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and the thousands of bloggers that are trying to "reach" mastercard.com are PART of the ongoing attack. All DDos does is overflows a given server with waaaayyy too much data for it to process at a time. Was RPF "hacked" on MoneyBomb days that caused the page to become slow or unresponsive? NO. Anyone calling these DDoS "attacks" as hacking has no clue of what they are talking about.

Not quite. They spoof the origination IP in a DDOS attack. So the server gets the request then hangs trying to open the connection to the wrong IP. This is why they are so effective, because it creates thousands of bogus requests. The server ends up spending its time responding to invalid requests that it can't answer valid ones. And since the origination IP is invalid there is no return traffic overload on the source system, so it can send out even more outbound traffic. It isn't "hacking", but it is nowhere near the same as regular web traffic.

 

[dannno]

Let me get this right...Mastercard is doing something these hackers don't like, so they're shutting down their websites (and trying to do so at others, and likely would cause more damage if they can)...and this website is cheering it on?

How libertarian is that? Attacking other people's property because you don't like what they're doing with it. Yep, that's real libertarian.

Actually the government pressured Mastercard to take those actions, so this is all very libertarian.

 

[FunkBuddha]

If I remember correctly, Anon_Operaation had roughly 4500 followers on Twitter yesterday afternoon. Now they have over 12,000. I wonder how many of those are participating in the DDOS?

 

[dannno]

Some people do not see it as stolen money. Some people see this forum as a threat. What makes you right and them not? (I agree with you)

Money As Debt

 

[dizi24]

Actually the government pressured Mastercard to take those actions, so this is all very libertarian.

???

So if your local government pressured your neighbor to do something, you'd be justified in taking action against your neighbors property? How does that make sense at all? Because the government is involved in someway, it automatically becomes libertarian to interfere with their property and business?

I could at least understand the logic behind the excitement if they hacked the government representative's website who pressured Mastercard to block wikileak donations. Still, the whole hacking thing is pretty immature.

 

[aravoth]

???

So if your local government pressured your neighbor to do something, you'd be justified in taking action against your neighbors property? How does that make sense at all? Because the government is involved in someway, it automatically becomes libertarian to interfere with their property and business?

I could at least understand the logic behind the excitement if they hacked the government representative's website who pressured Mastercard to block wikileak donations. Still, the whole hacking thing is pretty immature.

The only thing that is immature is an insane belief that boycotts will do a god damn thing, the belief that if you just tell the nice government protected corporation how you feel it will all get better.

This isn't fucking recess.

 

[dizi24]

The only thing that is immature is an insane belief that boycotts will do a god damn thing, the belief that if you just tell the nice government protected corporation how you feel it will all get better.

This isn't fucking recess.

Nice straw man.

 

[aravoth]

Nice straw man.

Staw man?

What good has any protest ever done?

We protested both wars, and still we fight.

We protested the patriot act, and they still spy on us.

We protest airport screenings, and they expand to railroads.

We protest taxes, and they increase them.

We protest inflationary practices, and they increase the money supply.

They use corporate infrastructure to expand thier power, and people in this movement stupidly believe that somehow, these "companies" are the fucking good guy?

Straw man my ass.

When would be a good time for you to start doing something other than bitching?

 

[JVParkour]

It is good to see you fired up Aravoth. And for good reason. Right on, man.