Amazing
Some amateurs, with little funding, can take down the web site of one of the most formidable intelligence agencies in the world (Mossad) ? Astounding. However, they should now fear for their lives as Mossad have a track record of revenge.
Anonymous activists marked the 5 November anniversary of the Gunpowder Treason Plot to get up to all sorts of mischief over the weekend. The websites of Israel’s Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence services as well as the Israel Defence Force were reportedly offline for a brief period over the weekend following a 4 November …
But are they particularly bothered by their public web sites? I suspect that is designed with a lot less resilience that commercial sites as will have much less expected traffic and less impact if it doesn't work.
It's not like the field agents would access everything through their public web sites - or at least I wound;t have thought they would....
Israel is one country I don't think they should try and piss off.
No, it can't be a browser thing, coz I've tried it in Opera, IE, Chrome and Firefox. I get the same set in each browser: none, thumb_up, thumb_down, stop, go, wtf, fail, happy, meh, unhappy, angel, devil, flame, mushroom, megaphone, trollface, facepalm, holmes, headmaster, paris_hilton, coat, joke, pint, coffee_keyboard, alert, black_helicopters, boffin, pirate, alien, terminator, big_brother, childcatcher, linux, gimp, windows, it_angle.
(Extracted that lot from the page source!)
No Guy Fawkes.