The five men have been arrested over a spate of recent web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks. They men were arrested because there were attacking Paypal, Mastercard and Amazon. The five male, anonymous used a technique called ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks in a bid to take the sites offline. A online tool called LOIC is was used to allow members to easily take part in the bombardments of websites. The LOIC promised people who downloaded this had ‘next to zero’ chance that anyone who used it would be caught. But according to a study the tool makes no attempt to hide a user’s net address which would lead any investigator almost straight to an attacker.
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Many people who do these actions have issues of free speech and preserving the openness of the net. I think some people are not aware of what will happen if these actions will continue. The people who used LOIC are not hackers but average internet citizens. I think it will be difficult for the police to arrest these people. I think is it not good that Mastercard, Paypal and Amazon denial service to Wikileaks. But it is not certain why they do not service Wikileaks anymore. According to other sources Wikileaks does maintain the rules from these companies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12299137
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