Anonymous Apologizes for CIA Website Attack — And Links It to Child Porn Sites
- Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:32pm by
Liz Klimas
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On Friday, the mysterious hacker collective Anonymous took credit for downing the CIA’s website. At the time, it took a bit longer than usual for the group to admit to the attack, and the following day it appeared as if it was apologizing.
In a video “message to the world, and to the CIA”, Anonymous says “we are sorry your website is down” and admits “it was not the intended purpose.”
Watch Anonymous’ message:
Anonymous claims the DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack — an attack that involves overloading a website’s server with traffic — originated from six other servers that contained child pornography (it appears those sites were the original target). The only way for the CIA to stop the attack on its website, Anonymous says, would be to take down these six servers, which it points out “should have already happened.”
It also appears that an individual or sect had taken this action against the CIA without entire support of the whole collective. We have reported before that Anonymous is often composed of different sects, which don’t necessarily act in unison or agreement.
As of Saturday, the CIA’s website appeared functional.
Of late, Anonymous has also been responsible for hacking into several Alabama government sites, Syrian government servers and a FBI conference call.
[H/T Gizmodo]
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grimmjsb
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 7:17amSo lets get this right… with an anology. Lets Say i am the a prop director or a stunt co-coordinator. Then some person comes onto the movie set and puts a real bullet in the gun instead of blanks that we are using. Then lets say i didn’t do my job or that i was negligent and that gun killed an actor or stunt person. What anonymous is saying is that because i was negligent i am guilty of murder. In the real world the person who put the bullet in the gun is guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit a murder and the prop guy is depending on the situation at most guilty of negligence.
Report Post »ZEstiwar
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 4:27pmLets get this straight… What your saying is the CIA shouldn’t be responsible for leaving child porn servers up?
Report Post »furnatic
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:23amAnon has been around since 2003.
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 6:16amIs it just me or has this hacking group “anon” didn’t start up until after SOPA was stalled in Congress?
Report Post »Red flag?
Nawwwww, the gov‘t isn’t corrupt and wouldn’t pull a fast one by hacking into itself to prove the internet needs more “gov’t help” to be secure, right??
cosmic dogma
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 1:26amThere is nothing morally ambiguous about child porn. It is evil and wrong, completely, clearly, wrong. Why not remove it from the cloud? Of all the laws that exist to “protect” us, why not protect children by eliminating child porn? If it can’t be sold, it won’t be made. Capitalism works.
Report Post »oldjackpinesavage
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:58pmAnonymous should be using their skills to expose the kiddie porn networks and their patrons
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on February 14, 2012 at 3:06amIt is cleat that you don’t know much about Anonymous and their objectives.
Report Post »oldjackpinesavage
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:47pmAnonymous should be exposing the kiddie porn sies and the people who view them. That would be a real public service.
Report Post »NotTheOne
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 7:03pmACLU?
Report Post »How about the New Black Panthers?
Eric Holder?
Definately Soros.
I really don’t see how they are having problems figuring out who to hack next.
VicksVaporub
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 9:48pmThese Anonymous kids are a punk chickenshits.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:28pmWhy would it be the CIA’s job to clean up child porn? Or the U.S.’s job.
Why not direct the DDOS attack against the Chines or Russian security services.
Is there some sort of bias there? The other countries don’t care about child porn or they would come after Anonymous?
Report Post »pecopfc
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:55pm…you jerkoffs are now on a list…I hope you get whats comming to ya……
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 5:34pmYeah, I agree. I’m LMAO because I can just see them scrambling around trying to apologize for making a stupid mistake like taking down the CIA site. They may not be around for very much longer now. And rightly so.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:33pmChild porn site users exposed?
Sucks to have CIA attacked but at least something good came out of it
There at 1500 pervs soiling their undies and I couldn’t be happier.
Report Post »Now if Anon. would stick to this type of vigilantism instead of the other junk, they’d get some fans.
jasmer
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:16pmHave you ever heard the story about the scorpion & the frog? It’s not in their nature.
I suspect extensive overlap between “Anon”, “4chan”, and those who think dead baby jokes are the epitome of humor.
Report Post »CryptoCop
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:13pmUnfortunately the script kiddie DDOS crew known as “Anonymous” have accomplished NOTHING by allegedly exposing the names of child porn users and then asking the FBI to investigate them. Like the FBI is really going to bring charges on the word of anonymous hackers!
capitalismrocks
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:33pmIt seems Obama’s cyber puppets are getting out of control…. this is what always happens when you build monsters, they become unpredictable and eventually… the monster will come back to attack its creator….
Report Post »EGsimi1776
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 3:40pmAnon was around long before Obama was even a glimmer of a politician…
Report Post »airportengineer
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:27pmObama will propose a tax on those websites before he allows them to be shut down!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:24pmHigh class people, aren’t they?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:31pmIf you read the article (and the title was horrendous), you’ll see that their explanation was forcing the CIA to shut down child p0rn sites. Basically they used servers containing the indecent images to send in thousands of access requests. In order to stop the DDOS attack, they had to shut down these servers… which hosted images of naked children.
Anonymous can do both good and bad things. This was actually an example of a good one.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:18pmThere is a lot of Pedophilia going on out there. More ephebophilia really, but it exists. There was Boy’s Town scandal (Franklin cover up) or the 1980s (ended 1994?).
Maybe anonymous can uncover & publish all the call girl Escort Services in the DC area. Take ‘em all down, Republicans & Democrats.
Gordon Liddy of Watergate fame called someone ‘s wife a whore. He was taken to court. Then the plaintiff dropped the case. Just the tip of the iceberg.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:36pmEphebophilia is the sexual preference of adults for mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19.
Gag! Wikipedia of course showing the Greeks practicing it… ugh…
That is nasty but I wanted to know what the word meant…
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:17pmI have a problem with someone more than 3 or 4 years older than a 15 or 16 year old going after them. They have more money & would be able to induce some of them to a ‘consensual’ relationship.
Report Post »After a person was 18 (started earning some money) I do not think the same people would have as easy time to persuade a young person to enter into a (one sided) relationship.
Stoic one
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:24pmand I followed the sub-link ‘chronophillia
Report Post »MonkeyBeagle
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:08pmYeah, I am leaning toward the camp that alot of the so called anonymous attacks are actually gov agents either false flagging, probing, or just getting everyone use to the idea of how capable these hacking groups can be…… That way when they decide to go big, they can say see, these guys are out of control. We have put up with them long enough.
Report Post »goodgrubguy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:07pmI think it’s Cass and Lloyd trying to give a reason for the Gov to control the web as well….. These guys would be fried if they were just normal citizens.
Report Post »kevin
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:53pmits a govt. scam its all false flag and propaganda in order to legitamize internet control why else would they not expose the fed and banksters and corrupt politicians they should expose them put them in jail
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:46pmit is scary to think the government with “unlimited” resources cannot come up with better hackers and or software to stop the hacks including those coming from china. maybe its way past time to go back to paper and quit putting everything online
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:00pmThis is not hacking. Nobody broke into their system.
A DDoS attack is essentially nothing more than a few thousand computers all trying to access the website continuously. They haven”t really compromised anything, they’ve just temporarily rendered the site unuseable. The same thing happens when a lot of legitimate users are trying to access a particular site. Any site on the internet is open to DDoS attacks. The only way to protect yourself from them would be to not allow people to go to your website, which would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a website.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:29pmWhat Rowgue said. A DDOS attack is child’s play. Doesn‘t make it any less effective if you’re unprepared.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:37pm@Rowgue is in essence correct.
A DDoS is exactly how he descibed it. The same thing happens when the proper resources aren’t in place before a Rush, or Hannity, or Glenn say to go to a particular website to check out a video. Everyone rushes to is and the servers get overloaded to the point that nobody can access the site. That’s why the repeated http//:www.RickSantorum.com references are kind of an in-joke on Beck’s radio show.
Now, where Rowgue *may* be wrong is this: according to the story, ‘Darknet’, exposed over 1500 users. If that’s the same incident, those 1500 users were exposed and may have had their computers broken into.
Back in the early days of the ‘net, there were actually worms and viruses that could allow a hacker to store their twisted material on other people’s hard drive, which they could access any time the compromised computer had been turned on. It was a real problem that some folks even went to jail over because they couldn‘t prove it wasn’t them that was downloading the twisted material.
One more reason to have good security and encription on your computers, folks… not that it makes a difference to these Anonymous-types. I truly believe they can get through anything, which is why I think they’re so dangerous. Not just to nations, but to people.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:21pm@Leftfighter
“Now, where Rowgue *may* be wrong is this: according to the story, ‘Darknet’, exposed over 1500 users. If that’s the same incident, those 1500 users were exposed and may have had their computers broken into.”
Darknet was last October. The CIA DDOS attack was last week.
Report Post »NukeHaze
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 2:21pmAgrred that Rowgue is correct. So far, these attacks have been on websites and not anything truly classified or sensitive was ever compromised. (or so we are told) DDoS attacks are not meant to compromise data, just the ability for clients to access services and sites. Their intranet I am sure has many layers and has likely not ever been breached. That being said, anything that is encrypted can be decrypted. Anything that is broadcast using electromagnetic means can be intercepted and interpreted. Wireless internet, especially open networks for free wifi are real weak spots for users who use no protection. We are at the point with cloud computing, however, with programs such as folding@home, seti, galaxy mapping programs you can download for screensavers, etc., that with enough combined computers, a brute force attack by a hundred thousand computers at one time crunching numbers networked together for a common task such as cracking SSL encryption in less than a few minutes is becoming possible. The FBI has already shown that it can crack WPA2 encryption in under a minute. Network security is very difficult to ensure. The only way it is said to be is if you remove a network from any other network, have it completely isolated in a bunker with a faraday cage and zero human access. Not very practical because it is meant for humans to use. Cloud computing is a means to be able to do some very good things but like many other ideas, such power could easily be abused for nefarious..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:38pmSomehow I am smelling another fish is in the works here; something else is going on.
Report Post »daveposh
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 12:43pmAny specifics on what you smell?
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:20pmFrom what I read, fish.
Report Post »toadicusrex
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 1:52pmMilk…. out nose… thanks, CanteenBoy.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 6:35pmCall AlGore and ask him what’s going on…he invented the internet after all…
Have the cowards pictured answered…why the masks? I always forget that clowns name with the wylie mustache?
Report Post »TheDM
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:54pmINLIGHTOFTHINGS, that mask is styled after Guy Fawkes, a man who is known for trying to blow up Parliament.
The mask design itself is most famous for being worn by the character V from the graphic novel V For Vendetta.
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