Friday, January 20, 2012

Anonymous

I don't understand the hacker group anonymous. They take down websites to make a statement (usually big ones). If the really wanted to affect the organization they would understand that most large organizations usually run servers on a different network than employees. Thus if you figure out the employee network and attack it you reduce the productivity and give the organization a much larger headache due to employees sitting idle. A organization is going to be much more upset with paying idle employees than having a few hours of downtime. Now I also understand that the website may take orders etc and even a half hour can result in lots of money lost. My point is about anonymous though. It seems they only want to be in the news for taking down a website (which is trivial and extremely common). Wouldn't it be much more effective to attack the bottom line?