A person who claims to be a former member of Anonymous has claimed responsibility for knocking The Pirate Bay offline for over a day.
(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)
The claim is unconfirmed but a person calling themselves "Nyre" left a message on Pastebin yesterday, saying he was the person that launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on The Pirate Bay, one of the world's best known file-sharing services. The site was back up this morning.
As for the reason Nyre claims to have launched the attack: "The Pirate Bay was a press-release Website for Anonymous."
This is one reason why Nyre's claims should be taken with some skepticism. Anonymous has communicated to the public in numerous ways, including YouTube and Twitter. In some of Nyre's posts on Twitter, he complains about the lack of availability of his favorite kind of porn on The Pirate Bay.Also included in his messages are what appears to be antisemitic and homophobic statements.
And people claiming to be Anonymous members are now taking to Twitter to refute Nyre's claims, alleging he is a known attention seeker. It should be noted, however, that is very possible for one person to launch a DDoS attack strong enough to take down Web sites, according to Arbor Networks, an Internet security firm that focuses on combating DDoS attacks.
The tools needed are easily accessible, according to Darren Anstee, Solutions Architect at Arbor Networks.
(courtesy:cnet.com)
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