Technician Posted February 18, 2012 Kevin Parrish, Tom's Guidesaid said: The hactivist group is now threatening to shut down the internet to protest "SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun." If the threat is indeed real, the world's entire population will suffer Internet withdrawal on March 31 as a result of the group's crusade. So how does Anonymous plan to take down the Internet? By hitting the 13 root DNS servers. Thus, the HTTP internet will be disabled because no one will be able to perform a domain name lookup. "Anybody entering 'http://www.google.com' or ANY other url, will get an error page, thus, they will think the Internet is down, which is, close enough," the group writes. Anonymous claims this will only be a protest, and is not designed to "kill" the internet. Instead, Anonymous is temporarily shutting the Internet down "where it hurts the most." "The principle is simple," Anonymous writes, explaining how the attack on the 13 DNS servers will be carried out. "A flaw that uses forged UDP packets is to be used to trigger a rush of DNS queries all redirected and reflected to those 13 IPs. The flaw is as follow; since the UDP protocol allows it, we can change the source IP of the sender to our target, thus spoofing the source of the DNS query." Anonymous didn't state how long the Internet would be unavailable, only that it could last mere hours, or extend out for days. "No matter what, it will be global," the group concludes. "It will be known."Yup. 0 Share this post Link to post
45th Parrallel Posted February 18, 2012 Heh wont affect me much since I only use it for forums 0 Share this post Link to post
PRIMEVAL Posted February 18, 2012 Maybe then I can start on my homework... 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted February 18, 2012 I can't wait. Nice things happen when Internet is down for a finite time. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomUK Posted February 18, 2012 I'm not supposed to say this is stupid, but it is. 0 Share this post Link to post
Blastfrog Posted February 18, 2012 I usually agree with anonymous, but what the fuck? They want to shut down the entire internet? Well, looks like this will come in handy after all: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/ 0 Share this post Link to post
hex11 Posted February 18, 2012 I'm still using lists of IP addresses like the in good old days, so this won't affect me. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 18, 2012 Poor old Snakes might have another productive day coming up, he's not going to enjoy that. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Lag Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) . Edited June 17, 2023 by The Lag 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted February 18, 2012 Bucket said:Quick, what's the IP of DW? Let me make a GUI interface in Visual Basic and see if I can track down an IP address. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 18, 2012 208.111.158.18 - which took me to linuxgames.com :D 0 Share this post Link to post
stewboy Posted February 18, 2012 Jimmy91 said:April Fool's? Probably. Reminds me of this. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted February 18, 2012 GreyGhost said:208.111.158.18 - which took me to linuxgames.com :D vhosts are why we can't go back to IP addresses :/ 0 Share this post Link to post
hex11 Posted February 18, 2012 It's nothing that can't be fixed with a line in /etc/hosts. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted February 18, 2012 *gets out his 300-baud acoustically coupled modem and tube-based CB Data radio gear, just in case* 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted February 18, 2012 *blows dust off morse key and FT-75 transceiver* hex11 said:It's nothing that can't be fixed with a line in /etc/hosts. If you can get that working - please share. 0 Share this post Link to post
hex11 Posted February 18, 2012 http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4536/fookw.png 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted February 18, 2012 hex11 said:http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4536/fookw.png Good god that hurt my eyes. at least a desktop background, dude. Or does your VGA card have enough memory? 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted February 18, 2012 Csonicgo said:Or does your VGA card have enough memory? What VGA card? 0 Share this post Link to post
hex11 Posted February 18, 2012 Does this look better? http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/985/fooz.png 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted February 18, 2012 OH NOEZ THEY'RE GOING TO TAEK TEH INTERNETS AWAY FROM US! Yeah, like that's going to happen... 0 Share this post Link to post
Marcaek Posted February 18, 2012 Right, because the best way to fight SOPA is to legitimize law enforcement's efforts against yourselves. This is basically cyber-terrorism. People are already fighting these bills and they aren't cutting off their own feet to do so. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted February 18, 2012 Didn't they get the memo? SOPA is down. The targets are now ACTA and TPP. Sodaholic said:Well, looks like this will come in handy after all: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/ Given that the author says this works by polling overseas DNS, and Anonymous' plan of attack is to target all DNS servers, this probably wouldn't help much. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted February 18, 2012 Marcaek said:People are already fighting these bills and they aren't cutting off their own feet to do so. What about some kind of alternative "Open DNS" authority? 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted February 18, 2012 There's a reason why there are 13 redundant root server addresses, and it seems incredibly unlikely that they would be able to take out even one of them, let alone all 13. Furthermore, 9 of those 13 addresses are anycast addresses - meaning that the individual addresses don't even correspond to single servers, but rather multiple servers located around the globe. In summary, this is an idiotic and clueless threat that is doomed to failure. 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted February 18, 2012 Some comments on that site say that it (the threat) may be fake, because they didn't see anything new on Anonymous' site. 0 Share this post Link to post
Xaser Posted February 18, 2012 This sounds mega-tarded. I'm not believing this until I 'see' it. 0 Share this post Link to post