Obama live stream unaffected despite Anonymous threats
Anonymous failed to disrupt the White House's online video stream of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Obama speech was streamed live from the White House's website as well as YouTube. Neither stream appeared to experience serious problems during Obama's speech. The group also vowed to "hijack" a Twitter stream with the #sotu hashtag, Twitter did not appear to be disrupted, either.
Anonymous is a decentralized collective of activists that have targeted companies and governments over policies they find offensive with cyberattacks. Their campaigns have involved hacking websites and conducting distributed denial-of-service attacks, which jam websites with an overwhelming amount of traffic. According to several messages on Twitter, it did appear that hackers successfully struck the website of a small organization based in Stuart, Florida, called the American Justice Foundation.
