Cyber-retalition Takes Down MasterCard

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MasterCard

The WikiLeaks drama over the past few weeks has people arguing for the free flow of information versus a threat to our national security. A group of hackers protested against MasterCard’s block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by committing a massive denial of service attack on their website. While the attack caused no internal harm to MasterCard, should this attempt be considered activism or shenanigans? Read the full article at nytimes.com

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Zach Superior

Zach Superior graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for television writing, but spends most of his time in HTML editors and Photoshop.