[Victims of Court Corruption] America Enraging Its Allies By NSA Snooping In On Leader's Private Conversations

America Enraging Its Allies By NSA Snooping
In On Leader's Private Conversations

It has come to the light of the leaders of our allies that NSA is spying on their private conversations, which has expressed outraged in our curren news. Now, the NSA is experiencing a shut down of their site. NSA claims it is not under attack, but just updating their software. Such outrage is understandable as even a parent would be upset to discover that their offspring were secretly monitoring their private conversations.

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http://rt.com/usa/nsa-site-ddos-attack-754/

NSA site went down due to 'internal error', not DDoS attack, agency claims

Published time: October 25, 2013 21:10
Edited time: October 26, 2013 18:44

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The website for the US National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday in what some claimed was an Anonymous DDoS attack. The agency denied it was under attack, however, saying it was merely updating software.

NSA.gov was unavailable globally for several hours on Friday. Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement suggested they were responsible.

Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA

Allegations that those users participated in the DDoS — a method of over-loading a website with too much traffic — are currently unverified, and @AnonymousOwn3r has previously taken credit for downing websites in a similar fashion, although those claims have been largely contested.

The crippling of NSA.gov comes amid a series of damning national security documents that have been disclosed without authorization by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The shutdown of the NSA’s site amid the unfolding surveillance scandal caused a flurry of jokes from netizens. One ironic tweet said: "Don't panic. They have a backup copy of the internet."

The revelations in the leaked documents have impassioned people around the globe outraged by evidence of widespread surveillance operated by the NSA, and a massive “Stop Watching Us” rally is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, DC.

DDoS attacks are illegal in the United States under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, and two cases are currently underway in California and Virginia in which federal judges are weighing in on instances in which members of Anonymous allegedly used the technique to take down an array of sites during anti-copyright campaigns waged by the group in 2010 and 2011. In those cases, so-called hacktivsits are reported to have conspired together to send immense loads of traffic to targeted websites, rendering them inaccessible due to the overload.

An NSA spokesperson told ABC News they are “looking into the Issue,” but said the spy agency’s internal network was “not at all” bothered, nor was any classified information in danger.

The spokesperson would not comment on the cause of the website’s issues, though in a separate statement to Circa the agency denied that the site had been subjected to a DDoS attack.

"NSA.gov was not accessible for several hours tonight because of an internal error that occurred during a scheduled update. The issue will be resolved this evening. Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service attack are not true."