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Anonymous Suspected of Taking Down Kiwi Gov Website

The website of the New Zealand parliament is down after suffering unprecedented and excessive demand for its services.

Or, to put it another way, someone flooded it with huge amounts of traffic rendering it completely useless.

Earlier today, parliamentary service manager Geoff Thorn sent an email to MPs explaining that the site (which should be available here) was struggling under excessive load.

“It is possible that this traffic is related to a public threat to bring down the Parliamentary website,” Thorn said.

That public threat was made by Anonymous, who said they would take action following New Zealand’s introduction of controversial legislation to deal with illicit file-sharing.

Thus far, Anonymous have not claimed responsibility. Others are choosing to have their voices heard in other ways.

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  • New_user

    I saw the thread on 4Chan, i can confirm that it was them

    • Anonymous

      rules 1 & 2 faggot. Lazers were fired at it though.

    • SomeAsian

      Nice job fag face.

  • hmmm

    errr … it IS available :/

    • Oliver Davenport

      It’s shit slow, though.

    • Oliver Davenport

      It’s shit slow, though.

  • hmmm

    errr … it IS available :/

  • ARTiST

    I would say attacking business is one thing, but its a completely other thing to attack government installations. I know you have to make your voice heard, but then again, they have a full force of dedicated individuals behind them to find people out. Just thinking that if the Anon did it, I sure do hope they kept their tracks well covered.

    • sherboil

      Uh so it’s ok to attack one but not the other?.If that’s what you meant then it’s kinda dumb.

      • Ryzzo

        What he was trying to say was that there is an increased chance of facing repercussions by attacking a government resource as opposed to the relative safety of attacking a corporate website. The government has additional resources and unlimited free time to try and find attackers where the corporate entity just wants to route around the attack and get back to business.

        Also, it’s perfectly fine to attack either. The DDoS is the modern form of protest and should be utilized against any entity. Just like sit-ins or other forms of protest there are sometimes consequences, but the DDoS is an extremely powerful protest tool because it allows anyone to participate without having to be in the geographical location of the target.

        • Sherboil

          Uh, yeah.Protest would be making online petitions or something.But disrupting them and their business?.You think blocking a street or entrance to a building is legitimate protest?, regardless who owns it?.

        • ARTiST

          Ryzzo couldn’t have put it more clearly. However, protests and demonstrations are legal in most countries, and they are so because it is not a threat to national security, most of the time.

          Think of it this way, a DDOS was launched from a botnet from say a country A to some government website in country B. Lets say A and B are on thin ice as far as the relations go. The person running the botnet might not know that there are such computers on his network, or chooses to ignore the fact. What then? Wouldn’t the government of B deem this as an act of terrorism against its sovereignty and decide to seek revenge out in the real world? What then? Or if these acts were carried out under the guise of the netizens crying foul but was actually an attempt to access its network? There are huge implications to be considered when governments and lives are in the dock.

          Although, many a times, protests and demonstrations might sometimes have some foreign partake, but usually these are controlled before they go out of hand. There is no stopping the demonstrations on the net, for the better or for the worse, for the tide cannot be stemmed.

  • ARTiST

    I would say attacking business is one thing, but its a completely other thing to attack government installations. I know you have to make your voice heard, but then again, they have a full force of dedicated individuals behind them to find people out. Just thinking that if the Anon did it, I sure do hope they kept their tracks well covered.

  • Anonymous

    How is this any different then blocking access to a building? No one is going to jail for using a network stress testing tool. It is the same if the whole world would start F5-ing the site. Each individual does nothing wrong. But it sucks for the site owner that they all do it at the same time.

    • Oliver Davenport

      Caches mean the site would barely get hit.

      • Anonymous

        Then Ctrl+F5 dipshit

    • Oliver Davenport

      Caches mean the site would barely get hit.

  • Anonymous

    How is this any different then blocking access to a building? No one is going to jail for using a network stress testing tool. It is the same if the whole world would start F5-ing the site. Each individual does nothing wrong. But it sucks for the site owner that they all do it at the same time.

  • Ninja

    They are pushing something unwanted forward. Makes sense they get unwanted guests messing with their site in an unwanted way. I’d hope those politicians got unwanted visits to their offices.

    heh

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  • http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

    Copyright law is the new socially-transmitted disease, except it’s spread by legislation rather than an act of love.

  • Lol

    LOL this attack happened the day before yesterday, we had fun, FUCKING PARLAMIENT BITCHES

  • anonymous

    Our Ion Cannon works good

    • Foreigner

      Real gud. We just need a HIVE, though.

  • anonymous

    Our Ion Cannon works good

  • Anonymous

    We did a great job!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ronan-Alves-de-Souza/100000501742033 Ronan Alves de Souza

    great job

  • Brendan

    I left the page loading, FireFox timed out and gave me a blank screen after a few minutes.

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