List of td email addresses now posted by anonymous now….gonna be a busy night tonight!!

newcandy-assgots thinking they are 1337 H@X0RZ because they took part in a DDoS attack

>mfw i saw this story
>mfw this willl only be counter-productive
>mfw my face is an egg

The hackers should expose the names of all the bondholders,so we can see who our money is going to.

Sounds like a bunch of roody-poos with LOIC.

How do you get involved and help these people out, I have no hacker skills but would like to help, particulary if they help to stop the coruption of paying bondholders

> Implying LOIC is democratic in any way

OP is a candy-ass

@Jay
L.O.I.C

Stop Internet Censorship. Stop SOPA Ireland. SIGN THE PETITION!!
http://stopsopaireland.com/

Best news I’ve heard all day just hack into everything that the political parasitic elite do

Implying that taking a site offline with LOIC is ‘hacking’.

not now!

Totally true there.
Watch bbc for the true Irish news..

Barry never has a truer word been spoken I personally have a hatred for rte,Pat rte tax internet tax rabitte is a total gobshite,Rte will never be reformed with a salary cap of 100,000 euro for presenters and decent programming and unbiased news because its a mouth piece for the government,the government won’t touch rte,only aer lingus,coillte,bord na mona,cie,esb,bord Gais etc its that sad but simple

I could have sworn that I posted Sean Sherlock’s contact information up here last night for people to have? Why was it deleted? it is freely available on his own website http://seansherlock.ie/

In case it was just an error here they are again:

Address:
Davis Lane
Mallow
Co. Cork

Phone: 022-53523
Fax: 022-57761
Mobile: 087-7402057

sean.sherlock@oireachtas.ie

Charles, what else has been done to defend the Irish people from this legislation that is being hurried through???

I have to agree. This DDOS attack by anonymous is juvenile and counter productive.

The government will spin this as a reason why this law is needed – “those scary hacker terrorists disagree with us so we need to push this through”.

How exactly is taking a site like citizensinformation.ie going to help change the mind of the public and politicians?

The petition at irishsopa.com had reached over 28 thousand signatures before anonymous #opireland attacks. Now watch the media and government only talk about anon “hacker” attacks in an attempt to ignore the genuine outrage and views of large amounts of Irish citizens.

yes Ruaidhrí, which is exactly why us, the citizens, THE VOTERS, need to tell them we DON’T APPROVE as well as the online petitions

It brings publicity to the issue which is a good thing and i’d like to think that the Irish people will see through any government spin bullshit they put on this considering the crap they have spouted recently.

Paulie, I’ve personally been on the phone to TDs, writing letters to representatives, getting answers. I’ve convinced some of them to reconsider their stance. Paschal Mooney retracted his statement (and subsequently changed sides in the debate, in fairness to him) in the Seanad after I noticed his use of false data about Aslan CD sales http://taint.org/2010/10/13/220502a.html I’ve been in contact with the copyright review committee months ago. When this started in 2009, I had the first letters in the Irish Times on the issue. I’ve had parliamentary questions tabled.
TDs are listening to polite, reasoned argument.

But no, go ahead with your dDOSes for the Lulz, I’m sure Seán Sherlock will U-turn immediately after some script kiddies take down a couple websites.

Charles, the first time i heard of it was through anonymous and i am sure thousands more will be aware of it tomorrow. Thats the point of these attacks, nothing more. Surely that helps.

The petition gathered 20,000 signatures in 24 hours, before Anon had anything to do with it. It was featured on the irishtimes.com front page, Drivetime RTÉ Radio 1, Today FM, trending on twitter….

If you didn’t hear about it tonight, you definitely would’ve tomorrow. My TD told me she had already received loads of emails two days ago, as had other members of the Oireachtas.

Anon will only succeed in getting all the wrong kind of attention and drawing debate away from discussing the legislation to discussing the participants.

@ Charles A DoS (Denial of Service) attack is completely different to alleged ‘copyright infringement’, all the likes of EMI et all is advisel the Government to improve their security on their sites and cannot be used as an argument to rush it through, hacking is a different beast which would require another piece of legislature.

As usual, I stand to be corrected as no one actually knows as of yet what this Irish SOPA contains.

Eamonn, what you said made little to no sense.

Yeah that’s all we need, the data of some innocent person or people being accessed by hacktivists over an issue they have no part in.

Ultan: try reading over your post for, I presume unintentional, irony

It should be noted, for the sake of fairness, that those two websites are (probably) hosted on the same servers as either of the other two Deparment websites. They weren’t likely to be directly targeted – they’re just other sites who are compromised by the attack on the main Departmental ones.

Totally agree , Why target FOI and blue blindfold. ?? And because they could is not the answer to the question !

In fact, the Anonymous Sweden account has just posted a clarification to that effect:

Note; http://foi.gov.ie/ and Blue Blindfold where never targeted by anonymous, and we condem any such action taken on them. #OpIreland

totally missing the point there Laura. Anon do this to bring attention to the issue…which it looks like they’re done quite well so far.

It is highly unlikely that either the FOI or Blue Blindfold. It appears that they were hosted on the same gov.ie network infrastructure as the main targets. When they were targeted, the network failed resulting in collatoral damage to those other sites such as the FOI.

See https://twitter.com/#!/AnonOpsSweden/status/161977773496336385

@Laura “Note; http://t.co/NafpQL5Z and Blue Blindfold where never targeted by anonymous, and we condem any such action taken on them. #OpIreland” from AnonOpsSweden

They said it wasn’t them and that they don’t condone it in the case of these two sites.

quote from their feed:
AnonOpsSweden Anonymous Sweden
Note; foi.gov.ie and Blue Blindfold where never targeted by anonymous, and we condem any such action taken on them. #OpIreland

Anon has publicly said that they did not attack those sites

Big deal. So they didn’t TARGET these site. The fact is that they took them down. I suppose they were just “collateral damage”. Isn’t that the phrase used for innocent bystanders these days.

This is exactly the sort of action that plays into the hands of those who want to introduce more and more legislation to control Internet access.

Kinda like the way the Irish people are collateral damage for the banks perhaps?

@non is worldwide, not only based in one country or coming from one country… its called the world wide web

We could take her down to the grass roots level, on the ground, where the grass is, on the ground but not without the help of Vincent Brown and his one of a kind haranguing skills. Anyone who doesn`t watch Vincent Browne wont get that.

yeah we have to speak out but the pricks in gov just will not listen…..no SOPA….Save Our Internet

Probably because most of them aren’t from Ireland and are blindly going after government websites without any knowledge on the detail of the situation here,

I think you’ll find it’s the evening in the US…

Also, if this was to have impact should they not wait and do it properly when the whole country is awake and watching? You’re telling me they’re lazy activists, not wanting to stay up late and ‘attack’ Ireland at a prime time?

I stand by my original comment.

it is a warning shot
as they explain on their twitter page “A note to some f*&^tards, when we attack after office hours, we send a wake up – warning shot. no more no less #OpIreland #irishSOPA”

https://twitter.com/#!/AnonOpsSweden/status/161971558661885952

@AnonOpsSweden sound like a very Irish organisation…

A warning shot? How delightful and thoughtful… What exactly are they warning about beyond a DDOS attack by some script kiddies who see themselves as the White Knights of the Internet?

Feck it!

Excellent idea my man.

So they hacked a government website to get a list a numbers that are public knowledge. Wow. Well done.

@Cormac Flanagan I think the numbers they got were home phone numbers. Not constituency office numbers.

Oh wow, how amazing. You do know that you can get these details simply by going to the party website? Its not like they’re secret or hidden.

search #OpIreland on twitter. I think the main group leading the charge last night was the Swedish branch. They have promised to continue the attacks today.

So, we needed a group of foreign online activists to begin our revolution for us…? Pathetic

ACTA is a worldwide treaty.

You do understand that the entire point of the actions they are taking is to DRAW ATTENTION to this issue. That without this to cause a news story a law would have been passed here which would effectively shut down sites like this one.

DDOS attacks cannot harm websites, merely overload them with traffic for a period of time. It is the equivalent of blocking the entrance to an building for a period of time.

To illustrate the point, did you have any idea this law was going to be passed until you read this story. Passed in the next few days at that.

I see the red thumb brigade are out in force. Do people really think that clicking on a little red thumb icon on a website makes anybody change their mind?

James, yeah I did. I followed and signed the petition. There’s a right way and a wrong way to bring attention to a cause. The petition was right, the DSOS attack was not.

Blocking an entrance is wrong in itself, it denies a person the right to decide for him/herself to enter or not. Protesting *beside* an entrance is OK, because you’re highlighting your issue while not infringing on the public’s right to decide to agree with you or not.

Oh noes, a webpage is down!

404 means government not found, amirite???

Actually this is a joke site that has been active for around a year now. Its got nothing to do with Enda Kenny or Fine Gael.

I figured it was nothing to do with him as it’s got a .com domain, still funny though -wish I’d known about it sooner.