WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers | Media | The Observer

WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers Media The Observer: "He is one of the newest recruits to Operation Payback. In a London bedroom, the 24-year-old computer hacker is preparing his weaponry for this week's battles in an evolving cyberwar. He is a self-styled defender of free speech, his weapon a laptop and his enemy the US corporations responsible for attacking the website WikiLeaks.
He had seen the flyers that began springing up on the web in mid-September. In chatrooms, on discussion boards and inboxes from Manchester to New York to Sydney the grinning face of a Guy Fawkes mask had appeared with a call to arms. Across the world a battalion of hackers was being summoned.
'Greetings, fellow anons,' it said beneath the headline Operation Payback. Alongside were a series of software programs dubbed 'our weapons of choice' and a stark message: people needed to show their 'hatred'."

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