Since last few months there has been a flurry of attacks on prominent websites by 'Hacktivists'. Calling the victims of these attacks 'websites' is an understatement, they are corporations, government agencies and even banks. It roughly started after the sensational release of classified US cables by WikiLeaks. This was entailed by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against PayPal, Visa and MasterCard by a group to retaliate their blocking of payment service to WikiLeaks. It was perhaps not taken seriously then, as the attacks entailed disabling the websites. No data was lost or stolen. The message was clear, though, anyone playing with freedom will have to play the price. They called themselves 'The Anonymous'. Their punchline is : "We don't forgive, We don't forget, We are legion, Expect us". 'Anonymous' launched hack attacks against the agencies that did harm to freedom of speech or challenged them directly. In
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