In Agreement, But this is a little absurd.

While I totally agree with the reasoning behind Anonymous' attacks on websites having to do with the whole WikiLeaks issue. I cannot agree with their methods. I believe that wikileaks is worth saving, but i can not condone actions that can have a detrimental effect on people who are not involved.

Firstly, a list of the thus far attacked sites:

PayPal
PostFinance (A Swiss bank)
Swedish Prosecution Authority

Visa

MasterCard

Amazon (it should be noted that the attack on Amazon was not successful. Given that they bring in extra servers for the Christmas rush, this does not come as a surprise)

sarahpac.com (Sarah Palin's website)

The biggest problem i have is that  fairly un-tech savy people are downloading the LOIC (Low orbit ion cannon). The LOIC does NOT hide your IP address. This means unless you are using a VPN or spoofing you IP address (something that many people using the LOIC might not know how to do) they can check and find out exactly where you are as was the case of a 16 year old dutch boy. It strikes me that no one received warning that this was the case before they use the program.

This is serious, as any citizen of the US at least, is going to be hit with espionage or terrorism charges if they have an IP address traced back to them.

For more wikileaks news head over to Things are totally happening. Ashley has got some good stuff.

P.S. Sorry about the time between posts. Work got its claws into me.