Cyberwar: Anonymous targets kiddie porn, takes down 20% of ‘DarkWeb’

Posted by | February 7, 2017 12:30 | Filed under: Media/Show Business News Behaving Badly Pot Luck

More than 10,000 websites on the dark web were knocked offline on Friday after a hacker associated with the collective Anonymous targeted an internet provider allegedly hosting child pornography. Visitors to websites running on Freedom Hosting II on February 3 saw a message explaining the hack. According to independent security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis, the web…

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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

4 responses to Cyberwar: Anonymous targets kiddie porn, takes down 20% of ‘DarkWeb’

  1. Mensa Member February 7th, 2017 at 23:51

    Good for Anonymous.

    But, taking down the sites is a temporary slow down.

    Anonymous has to reveal who these criminals are.

  2. Tommie February 8th, 2017 at 00:25

    It’s amazing to me on how many people actually watch things like that, I’m sure some of them have kids! Would they like it if people were doing that to their children?

  3. fahvel February 8th, 2017 at 03:05

    and anon might also consider a non stop hack of anything remotely related to the present lump of coal sitting in the white house.

    • Mensa Member February 8th, 2017 at 09:57

      Steve Bannon’s texts and emails would be very interesting.

      My guess is that the Russians have them and are holding them over Trump’s head.

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