You probably noticed yesterday that countless websites went down, all hosted by the popular web hosting company, Godaddy. While it is unclear at the time of writing whether this was spearheaded by the whole group or by a limited number of members acting independently, it seems that infamous hacker group Anonymous is in some way involved.
You probably noticed yesterday that countless websites went down, all hosted by the popular web hosting company, Godaddy. While it is unclear at the time of writing whether this was spearheaded by the whole group or by a limited number of members acting independently, it seems that infamous hacker group Anonymous is in some way involved.
Anonymous accomplished this through what is called a DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attack. This has been a favorite tool of Anonymous for a while now, using a similar strategy when they took down the website belonging to a group of Pro-Syrian hackers. Anonymous and the hackers, known as Syrian Electronic Army, had been engaged in an online struggle after Anonymous criticized human rights abuses by the Syrian government.
So, how do they go from there to attacking GoDaddy? To be honest, it’s a bit surprising. Whether you support them or not, Anonymous always seemed to have a strongly political theme to their attacks, such as their protests over internet censorship or their well-known attack on The Church of Scientology over alleged abuses.
The GoDaddy attack, therefore, breaks this theme rather severely in that it just seems so random. GoDaddy hosts so many websites, covering practically every aspect of the political spectrum that taking down GoDaddy doesn’t seem like it would further any cause other than chaos. If anything, the real victims are all of the small businesses who would see their revenue suffer from this attack.
Like I said before, as of right now it’s not really clear if Anonymous itself attacked GoDaddy, or if a member did it on their own (and, considering how fractured that organization is, it might be a moot point; there sometimes doesn’t seem to be any real direction or leadership of Anonymous at all). However, if Anonymous did cause ‘or even condone’ this, it certainly does give credence to the belief that they are not the internet freedom fighters they portray themselves to be, but rather a group devoted to nothing more than whatever strikes their fancy.
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