Quote Originally Posted by Deborski View Post
Anonymous would not shut down RT, I don't think. It's probably some right-wing hate group, or maybe even a government agency, because they view RT as "anti-American."
Yeah... but right "wing hate groups" are not usually massively IT savvy or geeks. And people who are IT savvy would not normally want to work with extreme right wing people.

To do a DDOS attack you basically need to have a botnet at your disposal (computers you infected with a virus that you control), or buy the services of somebody who does. (Other than "Anonymous" which does it by pure brute force/numbers - they have so many supporters and anyone can install the software and participate. )
Anonymous would never attack RT though.

And would a government agency really hire a botnet...? or horror, do they already have one of their own...`? The sleaziness of international politics never ceases to surprise me.

Of course, if it is true that they have hackers working for them to write the two viruses targetting the Siemens computers at the nuclear facilities in Iran.... then the same people can probably set them up a botnet too... But it's a scare new world.