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With the recent SOPA and PIPA issue and the take down of the website Megaupload, we had a case where a group called Anonymous bringing down government and media websites. From a technical standpoint, they didn't anything per se illegal because they didn't hack into their systems rather they overwhelmed the systems and pushed them to the limit where the websites crashed. This can be simply done by just doing the typical thing a user would do, such as searching for something on a site, but at a mass and aggressive level.
Any thoughts on this? Should it be considered illegal even though they didn't hack into anything?
For more background, here goes an article:
Anonymous and the rise of hacktivism
Any thoughts on this? Should it be considered illegal even though they didn't hack into anything?
For more background, here goes an article:
Anonymous and the rise of hacktivism