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Anonymous may take down F1 and FIA.com websites in protest of "evil regime"

To protest and "evil regime" in the kingdom of Bahrain, Anonymous has threatened leave the F1 website "'a smoking crater in cyber space".

April 22, 2012 / 14:20 IST

Just when we thought that it was a going to be a peaceful weekend kicking back and relaxing in high anticipation of the upcoming Bahrain Grand Prix, hacker group Anonymous has decided to rain on our parade.  The now infamous hacker team, apprently brought down both the official F1 website and the FIA.com site with a DoS (Denial of Service) attack on Friday and has threatned to do the same during the course of today's race.'Operation Bahrain’ (irc.voxanon.net #OpBahrain) is the latest hack in the groups signature method of standing up against oppression.  The reason for the attack was to stand by the kingdom of Bahrain against “atrocities committed by the regime of this “king” (King Hamad bin al-Khalifa)". In their official press release, they highlighted the kinds of feedback they have observed from the people of Bahrain through Twitter feeds, etc. and decided to do something about it. They called it - a popular and peaceful revolt against the medieval concept of absolute monarchy.Racing to stop atrocities

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first published: Apr 22, 2012 02:12 pm

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