Anonymous to shut down internet on March 31st

A recent threat, purportedly from the hacker group Anonymous, stated boldly that its members would stop the internet on 31 March.

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What do you guys think? They can do it?

Stop the Internet :O
Well I wont underestimate them. Let 31 March come and what happens.

**checking calender and seeing if its April 1**

Nice joke

IT would still be one day early to make whole world April's FOOL

Shutting down the net? I don't think even God can do that.

fun2sh said:
Nice joke

IT would still be one day early to make whole world April's FOOL

My thoughts exactly.

But, considering that it's Anonymous, I don't think they fool around much.

By Internet they Might mean "Google"..That is kinda whole Internet :lol:

@op always quote some of it if not whole article here in thread..

If the threats issued by Anonymous are to be believed, then Internet users, globally, should be prepared for this Saturday, the 31st of March, for it is on this day that Anonymous plans to take down the Internet, confirms a Pastebin post. Anonymous have drawn up a rough plan of how they plan to carry out this task. They plan to attack the 13 root DNS servers of the Internet. While there are plenty of DNS servers, all hosted by ISPs and organizations, they all are interconnected and everything roots from these 13 primary DNS servers. Anonymous sounds confident, so much so that they have even listed down the servers they plan on attacking. DNS servers are responsible for resolving domain names to IP address. Without any DNS servers functioning properly, there’s a good chance you won’t be able to access web sites by names.

No Internet this weekend?

Anonymous has made it clear that they aren’t really taking down the Internet, but will be temporarily disabling it. All the hundreds and thousands of DNS that rely on these 13 root DNS servers have caching, so technically they should still be functional, but Anonymous says clearly that there’s a timeout period for this caching, after which those will be rendered useless as well. To carry out this attack of mammoth proportions, Anonymous has put together a software they’re calling the Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool, which is based on Antisec’s DHN DDoS tool. There are supposedly bug fixes made to the tool and it’s been optimized for performance.

There are major loopholes in the way services work and Anonymous feels that a major bug in the way DNS servers work will let them overload the servers by sending a small amount of information and requesting much more from the servers. The trick it appears is not to attack the 13 DNS servers directly, but to request that data from other vulnerable DNS servers on the web, which will indirectly bombard the root servers. The links for the tools and information on how to use them are made available freely. It’s hard to predict what will really happen - whether the authorities will rush to plug all the security holes by the weekend causing the attack to fail or if Anonymous will collect enough volunteers to really take down the DNS network or partially disable it. If they are successful in completly turning off the DNS network, this would be the largest and possibly the most damaging event on the Internet in its history.

source: tech2

I found this. The actual message from Anonymous on pastebin:

"The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave."

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, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.

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In order to shut the Internet down, one thing is to be done. Down the
13 root DNS servers of the Internet. Those servers are as follow:

A 198.41.0.4
B 192.228.79.201
C 192.33.4.12
D 128.8.10.90
E 192.203.230.10
F 192.5.5.241
G 192.112.36.4
H 128.63.2.53
I 192.36.148.17
J 192.58.128.30
K 193.0.14.129
L 199.7.83.42
M 202.12.27.33

By cutting these off the Internet, nobody will be able to perform a
domain name look-up, thus, disabling the HTTP Internet, which is,
after all, the most widely used function of the Web. Anybody entering
"*www.google.com" or ANY other url, will get an error page,
thus, they will think the Internet is down, which is, close enough.
Remember, this is a protest, we are not trying to 'kill' the Internet,
we are only temporarily shutting it down where it hurts the most.

While some ISPs uses DNS caching, most are configured to use a low
expire time for the cache, thus not being a valid failover solution
in the case the root servers are down. It is mostly used for speed,
not redundancy.

We have compiled a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool to be used for
this attack. It is based on AntiSec's DHN, contains a few bugfix, a
different dns list/target support and is a bit stripped down for speed.

The principle is simple; 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.

The DNS server will then respond to that query by sending the answer to
the spoofed IP. Since the answer is always bigger than the query, the
DNS answers will then flood the target ip. It is called an amplified
because we can use small packets to generate large traffic. It is called
reflective because we will not send the queries to the root name servers,
instead, we will use a list of known vulnerable DNS servers which will
attack the root servers for us.

DDoS request ---> [Vulnerable DNS Server ] <---> Normal client requests
\
| ( Spoofed UDP requests
| will redirect the answers
| to the root name server )
|
[ 13 root servers ] * BAM

Since the attack will be using static IP addresses, it will not rely
on name server resolution, thus enabling us to keep the attack up even
while the Internet is down. The very fact that nobody will be able to
make new requests to use the Internet will slow down those who will try
to stop the attack. It may only lasts one hour, maybe more, maybe even
a few days. No matter what, it will be global. It will be known.

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download link in #opGlobalBlackout
The tool is named "ramp" and stands for Reflective Amplification. It is
located in the \ramp\ folder.

----------> Windows users

In order to run "ramp", you will need to download and install these two
applications;

WINPCAP DRIVER - WinPcap · Download
TOR - www.torproject.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/

The Winpcap driver is a standard library and the TOR client is used as
a proxy client for using the TOR network.

It is also recommended to use a VPN, feel free to choose your own flavor of this.

To launch the tool, just execute "\ramp\launch.bat" and wait. The attack
will start by itself.

----------> Linux users

The "ramp" linux client is located under the \ramp\linux\ folder and
needs a working installation of python and scapy.

Read more: On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down : News & World Events

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin

We know you won't listen. We know you won't change. We know it's because
you don't want to. We know it's because you like it how it is. You bullied
us into your delusion. We have seen you brutalize harmless old womans who were
protesting for peace. We do not forget because we know you will only use that
to start again. We know your true face. We know you will never stop. Neither
are we. We know.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
You know who you are, Expect us.

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One day no internet that suppose to be on some working day not weekends

It would be awesome if only thepiratebay.se running

amjath said:
One day no internet that suppose to be on some working day not weekends

It would be awesome if only thepiratebay.se running

That'd piss off a lot of the RIAA/MPAA guys. But, I think trackers would be affected too.

a days break from the forum & internet life. i like it

I Guess there planning to Troll the World

.Cause more than half of the world will exprenice this on 1st april

amjath said:
It would be awesome if only thepiratebay.se running

Torrents will run anyways :wink:

, they dont rely on hostnames rather IP addresses

Anonymous cant make the world suffer

Wow!! Anonymous are unpredictable.
Though we will not be able to access internet but "kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padta hai"

I'm sure someone will come up with a solution.

If this is true and gonna happen

/me notes down IP address of TDF , google and other important sites

Sam said:
a days break from the forum & internet life. i like it

Exactly my thoughts.

Sam said:
a days break from the forum & internet life. i like it

You don't have to wait till 31 March to do that. You just need to stay away from your PC and Mobile phone.

LOL

rajnikanth will shut down anon on 1st april

Oh the solution is not use http
Donno how sucessful this raid will b its a bit diff from other raids in the sense that this one wont have the chance to spread via social networks and get reinforcements crashing the party. Still dont buy the bit where they can continue the attack even when its down. That looks a little fishy like dividing by zero.

I don't know if Anonymous will be able to internet but I support them for their cause..they are the one who exposed Lolita city!!

Going to be a DDOS. Even if for a few minutes, it will be amazing.

MasterKD, I like your avatar.

^ thank you

yep.even for one minute will be amazing.
actually stopping the internet is not impossible..enough bandwidth and enough no of bots can do it..the only challenge here is to fight the DDoS prevention system!!

G

asingh..who is that in ur avatar?

doomgiver said:
rajnikanth will shut down anon on 1st april

gopi_vbboy said:
asingh..who is that in ur avatar?

Cloud Strife.

Think Anonymous had bitten more than they can chew this time,unless this is some kind of April Fools Day.

I bet we still would be discussing this all day along on 31st and thereafter. Sad to see them spoil their reputation ..

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that wont happen. It could be news site posting fake threads for news.

It could happen, but them declaring the means they are going to use??? that sounds fishy.

And the post could be by someone who's just trolling around...

It is known that DNS addresses are cached at the lower levels and sometimes take as much as two days to get updated...

There is official word from Anonymous on their Twitter page. The internet will remain online on Saturday.

Check here

Hmm its ramP not ddos
LOIC is more fun, it sets on the horizon and diff timezones take up the fight

Oh they said they wont shut down,They told it wont help any of them peace of mind

How long will it be!
No tf2 then

So they are not shutting down internet.

Here is the actual tweet :
*twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/status/185570401278103552

DeSmOnD dAvId said:
Here is the actual tweet :
*twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/status/185570401278103552

Hope its true

Good that i use DNS caching on my PC

A

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, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.

why not just attack SOPA supporters, wallstreet/banker sites?

It seems like a Hiroshima/Nagasaki grade attack. But, if done, it would be effective.

1 April preventing me to belive this.

P

i think they announce it for aprl fool ?

Its serious. Shutting down whole internet is not a child joke. If they do this then sure they'll get attention of whole world.

Arre!!! Chill, they are not going to bring down the internet. Its official.

SOPA/PIPA attacks started with the govt sites, move to companies and record labels supporting it, and then exploded against any site remotely related to the recording industry, including individual artist sites... Anon had gone one step too far... again.
Now shutting down teh interwebs is exactly like sawing off the branch you are sitting on, or axing your own leg or robbing a temple to go on a pilgrimage

Anorion said:
SOPA/PIPA attacks started with the govt sites, move to companies and record labels supporting it, and then exploded against any site remotely related to the recording industry, including individual artist sites... Anon had gone one step too far... again.
Now shutting down teh interwebs is exactly like sawing off the branch you are sitting on, or axing your own leg or robbing a temple to go on a pilgrimage

The threat was fake. Anon has its morals. however weird they may be to some of us.

Anonymous on Twitter:

Think for a moment: Why would #Anonymous shut down our playground, the Internet? Really, how would that help ANY of us?

Previously there was a rumor that they have come with a new OS and now this.
All rumors.

so which IP is down today? hahaha :))

Hhahahahah XD 31st march

Omg my net not working. Cant open thinkdigit forum.

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I think I might not be posting if they they shut down.

Nope. Still working.

Ahh, just read their Twitter feed. Makes sense.

so y isn't it down yet???

W

Dont know about about internet blackout but we here in Bangalore suffered a ****ing awful power blackout dont know for what god damn reason ?

Not sure about the internet but this thread is down.