How does "Anonymous" take down a whole site, i.e. CBS.com?

[Jerry®]

SO that's all I gotta do to...I mean SOMEONE has to do to take down a site??

[guitarist]

jackofalltr8des wrote:
Actually, it wasn't just a DDoS this time. They somehow gained access to CBS's server files and deleted everything sans for one text file.

This was no normal attack, and I support everything they do, except for that FBI.gov takedown, that was a bit much.

you might want to reconsider that.

I read some of the chat transcripts and messages that were distributed by Anonymous during the peak of the attack. He also made a special point of revealing the names, ages, colleges attended, all kinds of personal data... home addresses, home phone numbers, mobile phone numbers, of family members of executives he targeted as "enemies". Home addresses and phone numbers of family members? There's no honor in that.

When I saw all these sites come down, I admit I had a moment of relish, seeing the war amp up to a spectacle.

The irony is, under the banner of sticking it to the rich Hollywood Fat Cats who fly around in private jets and have mansions and rake in obscene amounts of cash, profits and bonuses from an ungodly pile of colossally stupid action movies and dull hip-hop songs, and Academy Award-winning showcase movies, and blockbusters, and other mega-entertainment copyrights they have reserved for their own benefit--- and who's the hero rebel in the story? A Mega-rich Fat Cat Bozo who's lavish, obnoxious lifestyle was enriched to obscene levels identical to 'the man' they're sticking' it to!

An egotistical Elvis-like whack-job with mansions and lawyers and stashes of weapons. Worthy of a Hollywood gangster. And what did he contribute to entertainment? His wealth was attained not by creating anything, but by crafting a parasitic enterprise designed to appear legitimate, but whose main purpose is to direct some of that entertainment money into his bank accounts instead of theirs.

Hard to see a good guy on either side of this comic confrontation!

[Jimmypoo]

I like it.

I wish they would take down Hannity & the others as they promised (so he said on air, reporting that HE was a target... probably just attention, since nothing came of it --- he played a computer voice recording that could have been sent to any number of targets).

I'd like to see Hannity, Boortz and Limpig taken down, with all of Limpig's OxyContin suppliers listed - such that it demands federal investigation of him, ALREADY having walked away, with no penalties for illegally importing the drug under dozens of names THAT OTHER PEOPLE would be doing 10 years for, no chance of winning at trial, based on the quantity.

I like 'em.

[decay]

[vision63]

That made me laugh

[guitarist]

Jimmypoo wrote:
I like it.

I wish they would take down Hannity & the others as they promised (so he said on air, reporting that HE was a target... probably just attention, since nothing came of it --- he played a computer voice recording that could have been sent to any number of targets).

I'd like to see Hannity, Boortz and Limpig taken down...

I like 'em.

We missed some. In the interest of non-hypocrisy we must include infamous clowns like Comrade Soros, Markos Mussolinios, Kaptain Keith Theodore Olbermann, and their ilk---as long as we're politicizing the topic, for self-gratification, can't miss those boys, too, I'm sure you'd agree. Take 'em all down.