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Anonymous UK vows to target GCHQ again

posted onApril 17, 2012
by l33tdawg

UK branch member 'Winston Smith' revealed the next targets for Operation Trial at Home distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in an online radio broadcast on Monday.

"What's the next target for attack? Definitely GCHQ, and it's definitely the Home Office," Smith said in answer to a question on Twitter from ZDNet UK.

Anonymous launched its weekend Operation Trial At Home campaign to protest against the extradition treaty between the US and the UK, which critics say favours US authorities. NASA hacker Gary McKinnon is among the people who have been affected by the treaty. The hacking group has twice succeeded in taking the Home Office website offline over the past weeks, but has not managed to overwhelm GCHQ's site. The intelligence agency, the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police had not responded to a request for comment at the time of writing.

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