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- Title
- Could Anonymous really shut down the internet?
- Author(s)
- Branch, Philip
- Abstract
- In a statement posted online last month, hacker collective Anonymous announced plans to shut down the internet. Yes, you read that right. Operation Global Blackout, planned for March 31, is apparently a protest against 'SOPA [Stop Online Piracy Act], Wallstreet (sic), our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs'. So how serious are these threats?
- Publication type
- Commentary
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- The Conversation, 02 March 2012
- Publication year
- 2012
- Keyword(s)
- Anonymous; DDoS attack; Domain Name System; Internet; Root servers; Service attacks
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Trust
- Publisher URL
- http://theconversation.edu.au/could-anonymous-really-shut-down-the-internet-5573
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012. This publication is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-ND 3.0) licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/). The published version of the article is reproduced here in accordance with this policy.
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