Michael Fry a Professor and a cyber security expert has cautioned people assisting the cyber group Anonymous with their operation ‘Payback’, in their use of the software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC to attack and bring down the Visa Mastercard and Paypal websites, are getting involved in a guerrilla warfare where their identities are easily traced if not covered up. The LOIC inundates the target server with huge numbers of requests for data which in turn effectively shuts down the websites ability to respond. Fry claims the people who took part are becoming commodities who could have broken laws about abuse of computer facilities, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to establish evidence they were knowingly doing so.

Inspired by Timothy McDonald at ABC news http://ow.ly/3rrXk

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