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In the wake of the federal takedown of Megaupload, hacker collective Anonymous has been on a retaliatory spree. Yesterday, they managed to divert all traffic away from CBS.com , following their takedowns of government sites and Universal Music Group last week. And according to a video posted this morning on a seemingly Anonymous-affiliated YouTube account, Facebook is their next target. The video encourages people to download a linked program that they can use to attack Facebook.
Anonymous Says They'll Attack Facebook Next
Concentrated and swift efforts by Ireland to invest in and promote cloud computing will improve the country’s competitiveness and return the economy to growth, according to a reports on cloud computing released by Microsoft today . The Goodbody Economic Consultants report, commissioned by Microsoft , suggests that targeted investment by the government now, while cloud computing is in its infancy, could be economically and socially beneficial to the country. Download the full report here (PDF | 1.7MB) According to Microsoft Ireland’s Managing Director Paul Rellis, “[the report] highlights the significant opportunity that Cloud Computing presents to Ireland – both in terms of helping to improve the competitiveness of organisations in the Public and Private Sectors and also in terms of supporting the country’s FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), entrepreneurial and public policy strategies and goals. Cloud Computing will change how the world consumes technology.”
Cloud computing, “an unrivalled opportunity” for Ireland - The Sociable
Anonymous takes aim over Europe's SOPA | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
Members of Parliament in Poland express their opposition to ACTA by holding paper Guy Fawkes masks in front of their faces. The masks are used by members of Anonymous. (Credit: Polish media ) Online activists Anonymous are targeting the European Parliament and supporters of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which critics say would curtail freedom of expression and encourage surveillance by service providers. Copyrightalliance.org was inaccessible today after Anonymous set its sights on the Web site for its pro-ACTA stance. Meanwhile, hackers were poking at the sites of the European Parliament and governments in the EU, with plans to dig up information on officials that could be released publicly, a source familiar with Anonymous' plans told CNET.
Site-blocking law dubbed 'Ireland's Sopa' to pass without parliamentary vote (Wired UK)
Ireland is soon to have a law similar to Sopa passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them. Irish citizens won't have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won't be a vote on the law -- snappily named "S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011" -- in the Irish Parliament.
About Sabu Treason "That night, after everyone found out, it was a bit chilling," said Gregg Housh, one of the few people associated with Anonymous who speaks publicly using his real identity. But in the hours and days that followed, something very different happened. "That switched. A lot of people we hadn't seen for months, or years, started showing up. An attack on some sites by Anonymous happened that night," he said.
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Beginning with 2008, the Anonymous collective has become increasingly associated with collaborative, international hacktivism, undertaking protests and other actions, often with the goal of promoting internet freedom and freedom of speech. Actions credited to "Anonymous" are undertaken by unidentified individuals who apply the Anonymous label to themselves as attribution. Although not necessarily tied to a single on-line entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes notable imageboards such as 4chan and Futaba, their associated wikis, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and a number of forums. After a series of controversial, widely-publicized protests and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by Anonymous in 2008, incidents linked to its cadre members have increased.
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Anonymous
Anonymous (used as a mass noun ) is an Internet meme that originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan , representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic , digitized global brain . [ 2 ] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known. [ 3 ]
Robert Catesby , John Wright , Thomas Wintour , Thomas Percy , Guy Fawkes , Robert Keyes , Thomas Bates , Robert Wintour , Christopher Wright , John Grant , Sir Ambrose Rookwood , Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason , was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby . The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth , was to be installed as the Catholic head of state . Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed.
Gunpowder Plot
