NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack

The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.

NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.

Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA

Allegations that those users participated in the DDoS — a method of over-loading a website with too much traffic — are currently unverified, and @AnonymousOwn3r has previously taken credit for downing websites in a similar fashion, although those claims have been largely contested.

The crippling of NSA.gov comes amid a series of damning national security documents that have been disclosed without authorization by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The revelations in the leaked documents have impassioned people around the globe outraged by evidence of widespread surveillance operated by the NSA, and a massive “Stop Watching Us” rally is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, DC.

DDoS attacks are illegal in the United States under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, and two cases are currently underway in California and Virginia in which federal judges are weighing in on instances in which members of Anonymous allegedly used the technique to take down an array of sites during anti-copyright campaigns waged by the group in 2010 and 2011. In those cases, so-called hacktivsits are reported to have conspired together to send immense loads of traffic to targeted websites, rendering them inaccessible due to the overload.

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oh da irony... ;)

JUST NSA?

Come on.. its Friday night, the night is young... the targets are many.

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    Reports that the NSA.gov is down due to the hacker attack are unconfirmed, but the website was offline at press time. Gizmodo pointed out that ...
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About time they got a piece of their own medicine! Good. Let's see how they like being a target.

Isn't it strange how all their shit is falling apart all @ the same time, IRS busted, NSA busted, Holder,Hillary,Obo Benghazi scam busted, Gov't spend-thrift budget busted, ObOKlown Kare busted, integrity & trust busted, over 20 nations screaming bloody privacy murder. ..and people wonder how terrorism gets started.

Well, I guess you reap what you have sowed. I'll feel better about all this when the elites are targeted. Each one should have their riches taken and thrown in jail.

riches as in?? worthless fedrsrv monopoly paper???...lol .....maybe turn their land & estate homes into parks & abused women shelters??...that would chap their ass ;)

That works for me. We could also drag them through the streets like Mousseline.

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