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Published: 11 February, 2012, 00:23
Edited: 12 February, 2012, 18:18

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Anonymous hacked the CIA

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Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov.

­At approximately 3:10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN. #UMAD?#Anonymous." 

The CIA website became the latest victim in a series of attacks conducted by the elusive group of hackers against US law enforcement agencies and copyright holders. As RT reported earlier, Anonymous took credit for crashing the websites of the US Department of Homeland Security, which was quickly revived, and the FBI.

The CIA seems to be less prepared for fighting Anonymous than other agencies. If the work of dhs.gov was revived in mere minutes, the CIA's site was still down even hours after the attack. One of the twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous explained the reasons of the attack: "We do it for the lulz," referring to the popular online abbreviation "for laughs."

In previous occasions Anonymous has orchestrated humiliating assaults with massive distributed denial of services attacks.

The technique also known as a DDoS, is a concentrated effort by multiple individuals to make a network busy to its intended users. The end results in a server overload

Even though DDoS attacks are a violation of the Internet Architecture Boards’s proper use policy, it has become an effective tool for Anonymous to spread online mayhem.

Two weeks ago, the online group also released the audio of a conference call between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s Scotland Yard counterpart targeting members of the largely untraceable group. It was done as part of the FuckFBIFriday campaign.

Along with the secret audio leak, numerous sites fell prey to Anonymous’ crippling assault including several entertainment industry giants and government sites.

The websites for the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group were among the first to go, with the sites for US Copyright Office, Warner Music, BMI, and RIAA following suit shortly after.

These attacks were in retaliation for a raid on Megaupload, where the feds raided the file sharing service site which led to more than 20 warrants being served and several arrests internationally. 

This is not the first time Anonymous takes down cia.gov. In June, as part of a 51-day-long hacking spree, the Anonymous affiliated group LulzSec took down the CIA's site for a few hours. The reason was the same as today: "For the lulz."

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SIMRAN February 12, 2012, 22:22 +1

We as citizens are not underdogs anymore. If you can suppress our rights so we can too take down your credibility. No one has the right to mess with the freedom of speech and expression. If Google can understand this why can't you.
Well if you don't then we know how to make you all understand.We are anonymous We are legion We do not forget We do not forgive Expect us.

Steven Gaylord February 12, 2012, 16:19 -1

Proof That ''Anonymous'' Is CIA, Government Operations, Cyber Terrorist's And Not Activist's www.youtube.comhttps://www.cia.gov/ www.fbi.gov/ telecomix.org/ www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread639966/pg1

duncan lucas February 12, 2012, 16:08 -3

I have noticed that every time america goes on world domination the posts to websites fill up with anti liberal views that are all of a low level of intelligence and lies this is to make websites like rt  look as if the people viewing them have low iqs and therefore can be dismissed do not rise to their comments as that is what they want I do agree with those who say america will invade iran/syria  if not why the buildup of american naval forces/this is a crucial time for russia if they let that happen then america has defeated russia /the world will lookon  russia as spineless and will then head eastward towards china-putin stop talking your country into defeat and ACT -if not will somebody  turn out the lights in moscow 

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