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Hacking group Anonymous took down a tourist-oriented website in Orlando, Florida Tuesday, vowing it will launch a denial-of-service attack on a different tourist-related website every day as a way of protesting the arrests of members of a group helping feed the homeless there. That could make the city the hack-iest place on earth, as well as being home to Disney World, the "happiest place on earth."
The website hit by Anonymous Tuesday, OrlandoFloridaGuide.com, was an "odd target," said the Orlando Sentinel: "a privately owned tourism site that has no apparent affiliation with City Hall. That website went offline shortly before 10 a.m.; the group's news release indicated it would remain disabled until 6 p.m."
However, as of 1 p.m ET, the site was accessible.
"Everyday we will launch a new DDoS attack on a different target," said Anonymous on its "Operation Orlando" website. The group also vowed to continue to "email millions of people in 50 countries with the Boycott Orlando campaign message."
The reason for the anger was the recent arrest of members of Orlando Food Not Bombs, including the group's president. Orlando Food Not Bombs is described by the Orlando Sentinel as an "anti-poverty group that has been feeding large groups of homeless people in Lake Eola Park." The effort was "in defiance of a controversial ordinance that requires permits to feed large groups in downtown parks, and limits any group to no more than two permits per year, per park."
Last week, Anonymous emailed the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, warning it would take its website down last Monday, and did. Scott Fagan of the chamber, told station WKMG that the site was down because of the intentional overload of its servers — which is what a denial-of-service attack achieves, deluging and overwhelming a website with traffic so that it takes a site offline.
Now, stepped-up website attacks will come because the "city of Orlando has ignored our warnings," Anonymous said.

Source: hackingjungle.com

Anonymous group don't use any skill

Their force is their number, there are hundreds of them, everywhere in the world, anyone can be an Anonymous

DDoS attacks are easy, they only use a free software available in most hacking websites

there helping people when they do it

Aren't these the same guys that stole credit card information from innocent people just trying to enjoy PSN?

Lol i live right by Lake Eola Park

They are freedom fighters fighting for what is right.

I'm sorry, but I have to through my two cents in.

While some may say Anonymous are "freedom fighters" and that they are trying to "help the world" and that they are "looking out for best interests"... some people might even say that "DDoSing is just a form of protest".

Its all just wrong.

They're causing businesses harm, and they're really not doing all that much good. I generally agree with their motives, and even often with their actions, but there's no point in DDoSing random Orlando sites.
They're breaking the law to protect homeless people, while that may be valiant, in Chicago, Mayor Daley was seen as a hero for moving out all the homeless people.
Its quite a moral quandary:
Do you let the homeless person stand in front of the business, or do you shoo him away to make it seem safer and more appealing for your customers that you're already fighting for in this struggling economy.

All in all, I'd say, they're breaking the law, and not even for that much of a point, they've helped before, but they shouldn't be in on every incident that goes mainstream. They aren't freedom fighters, they're criminals, AND THAT'S THE TRUTH! Anyone who breaks the law, is a criminal.

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Anonymous are no freedom fighter!They are the best hacker.

I think that illustrates how little you really know. Anonymous is not really a skilled group of them, most are just random people who "believe in a cause" and download a program to DDoS people at Anonymous's will, granted, there may be a few people within the group who may demonstrate small amounts of skills.

They are not the best hackers - and "hack your Internet" makes no sense. You can just "hack" someone's Internet.

I don't know how they do this stuff, must be a really clever bunch of people..