Linked by Adurbe on Sun 12th Dec 2010 21:55 UTC
For a number of days the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and others wre attacked by a group of WikiLeaks supporters ('hacktivists'). Although the group calls itself 'Anonymous', researchers at the DACS group of the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands, discovered that these hacktivists are easily traceable, and therefore anything but anonymous.
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2010-12-12
There are lots of specialists who take care of exactly those cases, i think.
It's probably a home computer after all. The average user doesn't destroy and burn his harddrive after launching such a program, i guess.