Call me twisted, but this just tickles me so much.
First we have the geekiest of the geeks, Wikileaks, managing to keep up and running despite attempts to block them by the techiest of the techs.
Yet they survived.
Then we have Wikileaks shutting down Visa and Mastercard today. Okay, now we all have to agree these folks are brilliant.
http://www.politico.com/...
Hackers operating under the banner "Operation Payback" claimed via Twitter on Wednesday that their efforts were responsible for temporarily disabling the websites of credit card giants Visa and MasterCard . The two companies were targeted after they took steps this week to block customers from using their networks to transfer funds to Wikileaks.
Okay, genius folk at work. Agreed?
Fast forward to the magical tweets of Palin and an article by ABC's Jake Tapper:
Sarah Palin on Wednesday said her PAC's website and her personal credit card information were the targets of cyber sabotauge by hackers who support the Wikileaks project. The hacking was first reported by ABC News.
First, to believe this, we must believe that the Wikileaks crew is sitting around twiddling their thumbs and have not a thing on their minds but hacking Sarah Palin. Now let's really stretch credulity to the max:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
SarahPAC aide Rebecca Mansour told ABC News Wednesday that the tech team at SarahPAC had been able to shield the site from the hacking attempts and that Palin herself was prepared for the strike.
Ya got that? The folks who can shut down Visa and Mastercard were foiled by the tech team at SarahPAC.
What more can I say?
UPDATE: To be fair,
jethrock has link article about 4channers who are responsible for the shut downs. Also Hackers take down Visa.com