Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Hacking The Hackers -- British government launches DDOS attack on Anonymous




Government Communications Headquarters, the British government's version of the National Security Agency, has gone on the offensive against hactivist group Anonymous. According to documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ took a page out of the hacker group's playbook when it launched a distributed denial of service attack on Anonymous. RT's Liz Wahl takes a look at the DDOS attack and other ways the British government is trying to dissuade hackers.

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