Anonymous hackers shut down the web sites of some central banks

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21 points·nomoba··8 comments

Sounds like they shut down the web sites of some central banks, which is a far cry from shutting down the banks themselves. The infrastructure for their public-facing web sites is almost certainly completely separate from their transaction-processing systems.

Exactly. As usual, it's some overhyped BS about a publicity stunt. These banks make their money on investments, loans, transaction fees, and non-transaction fees. Mainly. They didn't disrupt any of that.

Instead, some working to middle class IT people were running around panicking about what to do given their management didn't care about DDOS mitigation. Past that, nothing happened, banks kept making money, and rich are still rich while probably never hearing about this. Stuff like this from Anonymous actually shows how resilient elites are despite activists with more weapons and tech than ever. Quite the opposite of their goal.

Note: If they disagree, they can feel free to bring all the Goldman and government crooks to justice for 2008. The names of certainly guilty parties are known. Let them use their activist and hacking power to put Goldman's elites in bankruptcy and stock at nothing. I predict they'll stay rich and working hard on next, profitable crisis. ;)

https://xkcd.com/932/

Ok, we've changed the title above to use your phrasing. Thanks!

Not sure I like the idea of a vigilante groups having a large influence on society any more than large banks.

Since this only took down websites, it'll be interesting to see how this affects the price of bitcoin...

News announced shortly after May 16 22:00 UTC

Price pre-announcement: $454.48 USD

Price 2 hours after announcement: $453.64 USD

Change in price: -$0.84

Price difference: -0.0018%

So.. Not much.

Fsociety.

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