Looks like Anonymous are displeased with the government's recent plans for email and Internet snooping and are employing a DDOS attack.



More from the BBC here.

Yes, and of course they're not going to use a large and newsworthy hacking attack against them as justification for bringing in even more draconian internet-related legislation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... iness.html

it can already happen here just ask the good old USofA

as one of the US founding fathers stated many years ago ...
'Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.'

edited for historical accuracy ...

To be pedantic, which I can't help so my apologies, that quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin. He was never a US president, though he was president of the state of Pennsylvania for a while.

All of which doesn't stop it being an ever more pertinent phrase.

HK you are most correct ...

Law enforcement chiefs strongly back new 'web snooping' powers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18810571

Shocking

Are they gonna spend all the money that'll be needed to secure all these potential convictions? Or are we privatising that too?

Reminds me:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18827469

I await the inevitable screw-up so big that they don't even try to cover it up