<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/06/anonymous_launches_pro_wikileaks_campaign/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/06/anonymous_launches_pro_wikileaks_campaign/</a><br><br><p>Anonymous has launched a broad-ranging campaign in support of Wikileaks, starting with a DDoS assault on a PayPal website.</p>
<p>The denial of service attack lasted for eight hours and resulted in numerous service disruptions, Panda Security <a target="_blank" href="http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/operationpayback-broadens-to-operation-avenge-assange">reports</a>.</p>
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<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://anonops.net/">group</a>, spawned
from anarchic message board 4chan, first came to prominence with a long
running campaign against the church of Scientology, its beef with the
Hubbard faithful centering on their attempts to censor content from the
net.</p>
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<p>PayPal's decision to stop processing donations for Wikileaks
following its controversial publication of US diplomatic cables as well
as the withdrawal of hosting services by Amazon are seen on 4chan and
elsewhere as attempts to censor the whistle-blowing site, a development
Anonymous intends to oppose. It said on its website:</p>
While we don’t have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks,
we fight for the same reasons. We want transparency and we counter
censorship. The attempts to silence WikiLeaks are long strides closer
to a world where we can not say what we think and are unable to express
our opinions and ideas.
<br><p>We can not let this happen. This is why our intention is
to find out who is responsible for this failed attempt at censorship.
This is why we intend to utilize our resources to raise awareness,
attack those against and support those who are helping lead our world
to freedom and democracy.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://uloadr.com/u/4.png">Operation Avenge Assange</a>
will incorporate a combination of political lobbying (writing to MPs
etc), a consumer boycott of PayPal as well as practical support
(mirroring) and advocacy for Wikileaks. The traditional denial of
service attacks will also come into play with an assault against the
ThePayPalblog.com. ®</p><br>